Bandwidth enhancement by differential mode attenuation in multimode photonic crystal Bragg fibers

M. Skorobogatiy, N. Guo
2007 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)  
In multimode bandgap guiding fibers higher order modes have high radiation losses. Thus, after a short propagation distance effective intermodal dispersion is reduced and bandwidth is dramatically enhanced compared to that of step index fibers.
doi:10.1109/cleo.2007.4453157 fatcat:vkbf2zmz6bbgjavnyzunrqvey4