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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 43: Laseranwendungen und Photonik 2

Q 43.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 17:00–17:15, SCH A118

Applications of selectively liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers — •Timo Gissibl, Marius Vieweg, and Harald Giessen — 4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

Photonic crystal fibers have been the subject of many research efforts due to their amazing characteristics, such as endless single-mode propagation, high nonlinearity, tunable dispersion, or high birefringence. We developed a unique technique to infiltrate liquids, metals, nanodiamonds, or gases into selected holes of photonic crystal fibers. Two-photon polymerization is used to selectively close the holes of such a fiber [1]. With this method we have the possibility to close microstructured fibers with any desired pattern and produce in this way tunable liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers for light propagation in two-dimensional discrete systems. As examples we show 19-strand large-mode-area liquid-filled fibers, as well as tunable highly-birefringent liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers.

[1] M. Vieweg, T. Gissibl, S. Pricking, B. T. Kuhlmey, D. C. Wu, B. J. Eggleton, and H. Giessen, "Ultrafast nonlinear optofluidics in selectively liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers," Opt. Express 18, 25232-25240 (2010).