摘要:
A core portion; and a cladding portion positioned around a periphery of the core portion and having holes arranged circularly around the core portion are included. Twelve to thirty-six of the holes are arranged circularly at a radius of 36 to 48 micrometers around an approximate center of the core portion, a hole diameter is in a range of 2.0 to 11.0 micrometers, and at a wavelength of 1064 nanometers, a single-mode operation is substantially performed and an effective core area is equal to or greater than 1500 µm 2 . Accordingly, a holey fiber is provided, which is capable of propagating light in a form preferable for practical uses while achieving a substantial single-mode operation and low nonlinearity.
摘要:
A nonlinear optical fiber includes a core including a center core region, a core layer that is formed around the center core region and that has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the center core layer, and at least one buffer core layer that is formed between the center core region and the core layer and that has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the center core region and higher than the refractive index of the core layer; and a cladding that is formed around the core layer and that has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the center core region and higher than the refractive index of the core layer. An effective core area at a wavelength of 1550 nm is equal to or smaller than 18 µm 2 . With this configuration, there is provided a nonlinear optical fiber having stable wavelength dispersion characteristics in the longitudinal direction even with a high optical nonlinearity so that a nonlinear optical phenomenon can be used with high efficiency, a nonlinear optical device employing the nonlinear optical fiber, and an optical signal processing apparatus employing the nonlinear optical fiber.