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R A Barankov1, K Wei, B Samson
1Photonics Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. barankov@bu.edu
Abstract:
Leakage channel fibers, designed to suppress higher-order modes, demonstrate resonant power loss at certain critical radii of curvature. Outside the resonance, the power recovers to the levels offset by the usual mechanism of bend-induced loss. Using C2 imaging, we experimentally characterize this anomaly and identify the corresponding physical mechanism as the radiative decay of the fundamental mode mediated by the resonant coupling to a cladding mode.
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