Title :
Theoretical investigations of birefringence in hybrid photonic crystal fibers
Author :
Bai, Yongchao ; Hu, Juan Juan ; Shum, Perry Ping ; Ren, Guobin ; Yu, Xia ; Wang, Guanghui ; Lu, Chao
Author_Institution :
Network Technol. Res. Certre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
A theoretical investigation of birefringence in hybrid photonic crystal fibers is presented. The influences of the ellipticities of the cladding rods and air holes are studied. A high birefringence design is proposed.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical fibre cladding; photonic crystals; air holes; birefringence; cladding rods; hybrid fibers; photonic crystal fibers; Backscatter; Birefringence; Chaos; Frequency; Optical reflection; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; Polarization; Pulse width modulation; Refractive index;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
Conference_Location :
Sydney
Print_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
DOI :
10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610343
