Large area mode field photonic crystal fiber design

Shuqin Guo; Wensheng An; Kang Wang; Guangxin Zhu; Zichun Le

doi:10.1117/12.631897

5 December 2005 Large area mode field photonic crystal fiber design

Shuqin Guo, Wensheng An, Kang Wang, Guangxin Zhu, Zichun Le

Proceedings Volume 6019, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices II; 60193Y (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631897
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China

Abstract

A novel design method about photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with large area model field (LAMF) is demonstrated. Different from ordinarily design that the core of PCF formed by missing one air holes in the center of section, many air holes distributed in heartland all together come into being the core region. Air holes are arranged regularly in core region and outer cladding regions according to different periodical character, respectively. The effective refractive index (n _eff ) of core region should be higher than cladding region because of total internal reflection (TIR) requirement. In this paper, two kinds of typical scheme are offered to realize LAMF-PCF. First, Λ, the spacing of neighboring air holes in whole section is fixed, once the radius of air holes in the core region r_c is smaller than the cladding air holes r_cla, LAMF-PCF will be formed. The modal area only lessens a little as r_c is reduced. Especially, optimal size of r_c can nearly make MFA insensitive to wavelength. On the contrary, dispersion parameter of PCF will take place visible change along with r_c reduced, and ultra-flattened dispersion character can be realized when r_c is optimized. Another method of designing LAMF-PCF is keeping all air holes uniform in the whole section of PCF, but the space of neighboring air holes in the core region Λ_c is longer than the cladding region Λ_cla, so n_eff of core region is higher than the cladding region and TIR can take place.

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Shuqin Guo, Wensheng An, Kang Wang, Guangxin Zhu, and Zichun Le "Large area mode field photonic crystal fiber design", Proc. SPIE 6019, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices II, 60193Y (5 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631897

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