Design and optimization of photonic crystal fibers for broad-band dispersion compensation

Author

Shen, L.P. ; Huang, W.-P. ; Chen, G.X. ; Jian, S.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Volume

15

Issue

4

fYear

2003

fDate

4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

540

Lastpage

542

Abstract

Design of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for application of broad-band dispersion compensation is investigated by using an improved design model based on combination of a rigorous vector solver for modal properties and a scaling approach for dispersion characteristics. The newly designed PCF is shown to exhibit large normal dispersion up to -474.5 ps/nm/km, nearly five times of conventional dispersion compensating fibers, and compensate conventional single-mode fibers within /spl plusmn/0.05 ps/nm/km over a 236-nm wavelength range. Furthermore, the design model and methodology can be applied to design other dispersion-based devices such as dispersion flattened fibers and dispersion shifted fibers.

Keywords

compensation; optical design techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; photonic crystals; vectors; broad-band dispersion compensation; design model; dispersion characteristics; dispersion compensating fibers; dispersion flattened fibers; dispersion shifted fibers; large normal dispersion; modal properties; photonic crystal fiber design optimisation; rigorous vector solver; scaling approach; single-mode fibers; Design methodology; Design optimization; Finite difference methods; Material properties; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber losses; Photonic crystal fibers; Silicon compounds; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.809322

Filename

1190196