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Using Microwave and Macroscopic Samples of Dielectric Solids to Study the Photonic Properties of Disordered Photonic Bandgap Materials
Published on: September 26, 2014
Supercritical xenon-filled hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber
K E Lynch-Klarup1, E D Mondloch, M G Raymer
1Oregon Center for Optics and Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. lynchkla@uoregon.edu
Abstract:
We demonstrate that filling a hollow-core photonic-bandgap fiber with supercritical xenon creates a medium with a controllable density up to several hundred times that at STP, while working at room temperature. The high compressibility of the supercritical fluid allows rapid tuning of the spectral guidance window by making small changes of gas pressure near the critical point. We discuss potential applications of this system in linear and nonlinear optics.
