Light and gas confinement in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre based photonic microcells

F. Benabid; P. J. Roberts; F. Couny; P. S. Light

doi:10.2971/jeos.2009.09004

Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications, Vol 4 (2009)

Light and gas confinement in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre based photonic microcells

F. Benabid, P. J. Roberts, F. Couny, P. S. Light

Abstract

We review the recent progress on the understanding of optical guidance mechanisms in hollow-core photonic crystal fibres, and on the quantum and nonlinear optical applications of photonic microcells based on this fibre form. Two classes of hollow-core photonic crystal fibre are identified: one guides via a photonic bandgap and the other guides by virtue of an inhibited coupling between core and cladding mode constituents. For the former fibre type, we explore how the bandgap is formed using a photonic analogue of the tight-binding model and how it is related to the anti-resonant reflection optical waveguide guidance. For the second type of fibre, which can guide over a broad wavelength range, we examine the nature of the inhibited coupling. We describe a technique for the fabrication of photonic microcells that can accommodate vacuum pressures, and we finish by showing the latest results on electromagnetically induced transparency in a rubidium filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, the CW-pumped hydrogen Raman laser and the generation of multi-octave spanning stimulated Raman scattering spectral combs.

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