Kerr nonlinearity in small core optical fibres and nanowires: a generalised model, and application to microstructured fibres
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2008
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Afshar Vahid, S.
Monro, T.
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Conference paper
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Proceedings of OECC/ACOFT 2008 Conference : Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (2008 : Sydney, Australia)
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Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) (2008 : Sydney, Australia)
Abstract
We develop a generalized relation for effective nonlinear coefficients of waveguides with arbitrary refractive index profiles. Significant differences between the new definition and usual one are demonstrated in the regime of strong guidance or waveguides with sub-wavelength inclusions.