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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages 2503-2511Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002503
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We investigate the guidance properties of low-contrast photonic band gap fibres. As predicted by the antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW) picture, band gaps were observed between wavelengths where modes of the high-index rods in the cladding are cutoff. At these wavelengths, leakage from the core by coupling to higher-order modes of the rods was observed directly. The low index contrast allowed for bend loss to be investigated; unlike in index-guiding fibres, anomalous centripetal light leakage through the inside of the bend can occur. (C) 2005 Optical Society of America.
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