Hollow antiresonant fibers with low bending loss.

We first use numerical simulations to show that bending losses of hollow antiresonant fibers are a strong function of their geometrical structure. We then demonstrate this by fabricating a hollow antiresonant fiber which presents a bending loss as low as 0.25 dB/turn at a wavelength of 3.35 μm and a bend radius of 2.5 cm. This fiber has a relatively low attenuation (<200 dB/km) over 600 nm mid-infrared spectral range.

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