A Unified Materials Approach To Mitigating Optical Nonlinearities In Optical Fibre. Iii - Canonical Examples And Materials Road Map

This paper, Part III in the Trilogy, provides a road map for the development of simple core/clad optical fibres whose enhanced performance, in particular, marked reductions in optical nonlinearities - is achieved materially and not through the more conventional present routes of geometrically complex fibre design. More specifically, the material properties that give rise to Brillouin, Raman and Rayleigh scattering, transverse mode instabilities (TMI) and n2-mediated nonlinear effects are compiled and results on a wide range of optical fibres are discussed with a focus on trends in performance with glass composition.