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Limiting efficiencies of nonlinear-optical processes in microstructure fibers

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The ways of achieving limiting waveguide enhancement of nonlinear-optical processes in microstructure and photonic-crystal fibers are studied. The waveguide enhancement of nonlinear-optical processes is shown to be physically limited because of the competition of diffraction and refractive-index-step radiation confinement. In the case of the limiting refractive-index step values for fused silica fibers, the maximum waveguide enhancement of nonlinear-optical processes is achieved with submicron fiber core diameters. The maximum waveguide enhancement of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering in a hollow microstructure fiber relative to the regime of tight focusing is shown to scale as λ 2/αa 4 with radiation wavelength λ, the inner fiber radius a, and the magnitude of radiation losses α.

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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 124, No. 3, 2003, pp. 558–577.

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Zheltikov, M. Limiting efficiencies of nonlinear-optical processes in microstructure fibers. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 97, 505–521 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1618337

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