Temperature coefficient of the high-frequency guided acoustic mode in a photonic crystal fiber.

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Date publication

décembre 2011

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr MAILLOTTE Hervé


Tous les auteurs :
Carry E, Beugnot JC, Stiller B, Lee MW, Maillotte H, Sylvestre T

Résumé

High-frequency guided acoustic Brillouin modes have recently been observed in small-core silica photonic crystal fibers. In this paper, we investigate the temperature dependence of the optical sideband frequency generated by one of these guided acoustic waves. The experimental results show a temperature coefficient of 100 kHz/ degrees C at an acoustic resonance frequency of 1.15 GHz and are in very good agreement with the theoretical predictions. This coefficient demonstrates a temperature sensitivity 10 times larger than that previously reported in conventional single-mode fibers, which is promising in view of potential applications to optical fiber sensors.

Référence

Appl Opt. 2011 Dec 10;50(35):6543-7