Chromatic dispersions in highly nonlinear glass nanofibers

Chitrarekha Chaudhari; Takenobu Suzuki; Yasutake Ohishi

doi:10.1117/12.795811

25 August 2008 Chromatic dispersions in highly nonlinear glass nanofibers

Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Proceedings Volume 7056, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications II; 70561K (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.795811
Event: Photonic Devices + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We design air cladding tellurite (TeO₂), bismuth oxide (Bi₂O₃) based, and chalcogenide (As₂S₃) nanofibers, and calculate the chromatic dispersions. For each material, wavelength dependent propagation constants of the nanofiber are obtained from the exact solutions of the Maxwell's equations, and from the propagation constants the chromatic dispersion is calculated. We tailor the dispersion to zero at the communication wavelength, 1.5 μm, by proper selection of the core diameter of the nanofiber for all the above materials. We further explain the technique for flattening the zero dispersion in telecommunication window, using glass instead of air, as the cladding of the nanofiber structure. Using the glass cladding has the advantage of easy handling, specially, for the communication purposes. Further, the glass cladding causes larger effective index difference between various modes of the nanofiber, thus reducing the mode coupling. We present the numerical results of the dispersion flattening technique by assuming the borosilicate glass cladding to the chalcogenide As₂S₃ glass core nanofiber. With the borosilicate cladding the dispersion characteristics of the nanofiber change drastically and flattening of the zero dispersion is achieved at 1.408 μm wavelength, when the core diameter is 724 nm.

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Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi "Chromatic dispersions in highly nonlinear glass nanofibers", Proc. SPIE 7056, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications II, 70561K (25 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.795811

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