Abstract
The combination of chalcogenide glasses with polymer photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) is a difficult and challenging task due to their different thermo-mechanical material properties. Here we report the first experimental realization of a hybrid polymer-chalcogenide PCF with integrated As2S3 glass nanofilms at the inner surface of the air-channels of a poly-methyl-methacrylate (PMMA) PCF. The integrated high refractive index glass films introduce distinct antiresonant transmission bands in the 480-900 nm wavelength region. We demonstrate that the ultra-high Kerr nonlinearity of the chalcogenide glass makes the polymer PCF nonlinear and provides a possibility to shift the transmission band edges as much as 17 nm by changing the intensity. The proposed fabrication technique constitutes a new highway towards all-fiber nonlinear tunable devices based on polymer PCFs, which at the moment is not possible with any other fabrication method.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Scientific Reports |
| Volume | 4 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISSN | 2045-2322 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Antiresonant transmission band
- Ultra-high Kerr nonlinearity
- Air-channel
- Arsenic sulfide 1303-33-9
- Poly-methyl-methacrylate 9011-14-7
- Biochemistry studies - General
- All-fiber nonlinear tunable device laboratory equipment
- Fabrication technique laboratory techniques
- Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber laboratory equipment
- Integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilm laboratory equipment
- Chemistry
- Equipment Apparatus Devices and Instrumentation