Abstract

We report a highly-nonlinear germanium doped photonic crystal fiber with Kerr and Raman nonlinear coefficients of 69.3 W^-1.km^-1 and 94 W^-1.km^-1 respectively, with an attenuation of 17.5 dB/km around 1 µm, which leads to a record figure of merit at this wavelength.

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