PMID- 25317501
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150512
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 4
DP  - 2014 Aug 14
TI  - Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass 
      nanofilms.
PG  - 6057
LID - 10.1038/srep06057 [doi]
LID - 6057
AB  - The combination of chalcogenide glasses with polymer photonic crystal fibers 
      (PCFs) is a difficult and challenging task due to their different 
      thermo-mechanical material properties. Here we report the first experimental 
      realization of a hybrid polymer-chalcogenide PCF with integrated As2S3 glass 
      nanofilms at the inner surface of the air-channels of a poly-methyl-methacrylate 
      (PMMA) PCF. The integrated high refractive index glass films introduce distinct 
      antiresonant transmission bands in the 480-900 nm wavelength region. We 
      demonstrate that the ultra-high Kerr nonlinearity of the chalcogenide glass makes 
      the polymer PCF nonlinear and provides a possibility to shift the transmission 
      band edges as much as 17 nm by changing the intensity. The proposed fabrication 
      technique constitutes a new highway towards all-fiber nonlinear tunable devices 
      based on polymer PCFs, which at the moment is not possible with any other 
      fabrication method.
FAU - Markos, Christos
AU  - Markos C
AD  - DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of 
      Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
FAU - Kubat, Irnis
AU  - Kubat I
AD  - DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of 
      Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
FAU - Bang, Ole
AU  - Bang O
AD  - DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of 
      Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140814
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
PMC - PMC5377533
COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interests.
EDAT- 2014/10/16 06:00
MHDA- 2014/10/16 06:01
PMCR- 2014/08/14
CRDT- 2014/10/16 06:00
PHST- 2014/03/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/07/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/10/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/10/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/10/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/08/14 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - srep06057 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/srep06057 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 14;4:6057. doi: 10.1038/srep06057.