Highly Nonlinear Birefringent Soft Glass Photonic Crystal Fiber With Liquid Crystal Core

Author

Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O. ; Obayya, Salah S. A. ; El-Mikati, H.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Mansoura Univ., Mansoura, Egypt

Volume

23

Issue

20

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1478

Lastpage

1480

Abstract

In this letter, highly nonlinear birefringent soft glass photonic crystal fiber is presented and analyzed using the full vectorial finite-difference method. The suggested design has a central hole infiltrated with a nematic liquid crystal (NLC). The reported design offers high birefringence of 0.042 at the operating wavelength 1.55 μm with low losses for the two polarized modes. In addition, high nonlinearities of 425.5 W^-1 km^-1 and 470.8 W^-1 km^-1 are achieved for the quasi-transverse electric (TE) and quasi-transverse magnetic (TM) modes, respectively, at the operating wavelength of 1.55 μm.

Keywords

birefringence; finite difference methods; holey fibres; nematic liquid crystals; nonlinear optics; optical design techniques; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical glass; photonic crystals; birefringence; full vectorial finite-difference method; nematic liquid crystal core; nonlinear birefringent soft glass photonic crystal fiber; optical design; optical loss; polarized modes; quasitransverse electric modes; quasitransverse magnetic modes; wavelength 1.55 mum; Glass; Indexes; Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Photonic crystal fibers; Finite-difference method; nematic liquid crystal (NLC); photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); soft glass;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2163499

Filename

5971763