Abstract
We investigate the microhole collapse property of different photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) and its effect on
the splice loss using an electric arc fusion splicer. The physical mechanism of the splice loss for different kinds
of PCFs is studied, and a guideline for splicing these PCFs and conventional single-mode fibers (SMFs) is proposed.
We demonstrate a low-loss fusion splicing of five different PCFs with SMFs, including large-mode PCF, hollow-core
PCF, nonlinear PCFs, and polarization-maintaining PCF.
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