Elliptical–Spiral Photonic Crystal Fibers With Wideband High Birefringence, Large Nonlinearity, and Low Dispersion

Author

Gui, Chengcheng ; Wang, Jian

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

4

Issue

6

fYear

2012

Firstpage

2152

Lastpage

2158

Abstract

We design a novel elliptical-spiral soft-glass photonic crystal fiber (PCF) achieving simultaneous wideband high birefringence, large nonlinearity, and low chromatic dispersion. Through the optimization of the arrangement and diameter of circular air holes, the designed elliptical-spiral PCF offers high birefringence up to 0.05554, large nonlinearity up to 3089/3079 W^-1 ·km^-1, and low chromatic dispersion of (-95.45, 0)/(-372.6, 153.2) ps/nm/km for X/Y-polarization within a wavelength range of 1000-1800 nm.

Keywords

birefringence; finite element analysis; holey fibres; nonlinear optics; optical design techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; photonic crystals; PCF; elliptical-spiral photonic crystal fibers; full-vector finite-element method; large nonlinearity; low chromatic dispersion; wideband high birefringence; Chromatic dispersion; Glass; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Photonic crystals; Spirals; Birefringence; chromatic dispersion; elliptical–spiral photonic crystal fiber; nonlinearity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2226149

Filename

6341028