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Photonic Crystal Fibers
Photonic Crystal Fibers

  • High power threshold for fiber nonlinearities
  • High peak power of guided mode before material breakdown threshold is reached
  • Ability to fill the core or cladding with gasses or liquids
  • Low Fresnel reflection from the fiber facets
  • Large span of dispersion values achievable: from highly negative to highly positive
  • Fibers are practically bend insensitive to even several turns on sub-centimeter diameter spools

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Product Description
Newport's Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) can provide characteristics that ordinary optical fiber cannot, such as: single mode operation from the UV to IR with large mode-field diameters, highly nonlinear performance for super continuum generation, numerical aperture (NA) values ranging from very low to about 0.9, optimized dispersion properties, and air core guidance, among others. Applications for PCFs include spectroscopy, metrology, biomedicine, imaging, telecommunication, industrial machining, and military. PCFs are generally divided into two main categories: Index Guiding fibers that have a solid core, and Photonic Bandgap fibers that have periodic microstructured elements and a core of low index material (e.g. hollow core). A Classification tree is shown below in Fig. 1. Newport offers F-SM Series Large Mode Area PCFs, F-NL Series Nonlinear PCFs, and F-AIR Series Photonic Bandgap or Air Guiding fibers, manufactured by Crystal Fibre, the biggest commercial supplier of photonic crystal fibers. Also offered are the Photonic Crystal Fiber Starter Kit (F-PCF-KIT) and, the newest addition, SCG-800 self contained Supercontinuum Generator. Please refer to our Fiber Tutorial Section for more detailed information on the properties of Photonic Crystal Fibers.


Photonic Crystal Fiber Pricing
 Quantity Model Description 1-10 m Price
  F-SM8 Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 8.5 mm Core 
  F-SM10 Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 10 mm Core 
  F-SM15 Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 15 mm Core 
  F-SM20 Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 20 mm Core 
  F-SM25 Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 25 mm Core 
  F-SM35 Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 35 mm Core 
  F-SM5-PM Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 5 mm Core, Polarization Maintaining 
  F-SM10-PM Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 10 mm Core, Polarization Maintaining 
  F-SM16-PM Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 16 mm Core, Polarization Maintaining 
  F-SM20-PZ Endlessly Singlemode PCF, 19.7 mm Core, Polarizing 
  F-NL-5/1040 Nonlinear PCF, 4.9 mm Core, 1040 nm Zero Dispersion Wavelength 
  F-NL-PM-750 Nonlinear, PM PCF, 2 mm Core, 750/1260 nm Zero Dispersion Wavelengths 
  F-AIR-6/800 Airguided PCF, 6 mm Core, 800 nm Operating Wavelength 
  F-AIR-10/1060 Airguided PCF, 10 mm Core, 1060 nm Operating Wavelength 
  F-AIR-11/1550 Airguided PCF, 11 mm Core, 1550 nm Operating Wavelength 
  F-AIR-20/1550 Airguided PCF, 20 mm Core, 1570 nm Operating Wavelength 
  F-PCF-KIT-2 Photonic Crystal Fiber Starter Kit, Contains the following fiber types and lengths: F-SM10 (5m), F-SM15 (5m), F-SM25 (1m), F-SM10-PM (2m), F-NL-PM-750 (1m), F-AIR-10/1060 (2m), and F-AIR-20/1550 (1m), & MM-31-01 (5m) 
  SCG-800 Self Contained Supercontinuum Generator for Femtosecond 800nm pulses 

Quantity Discounts are available at 10 and 50 - lengths. Please contact Newport for a quote.

Photonic Crystal Fibers can be ordered with FC/PC or FC/APC connectors, an/or single-mode fiber splices on a custom basis. Contact Newport for a quote.
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