Determination of fiber parameters and the effects of dispersion in a Radio over Fiber system

Author

Johny, J. ; Shashidharan, S. ; Sudheer, S.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Hindustan Univ., Chennai, India

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We investigate a linear light propagation mechanism in the photonic crystal fibers infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals which is used for Radio over Fiber (ROF) applications. PCF core region consists of soft glass and has nematic liquid crystal filled holes in the cladding region. Using the designed hexagonal solid core liquid crystal PCF, the wavelength dependent fundamental optical characteristics of single mode photonic crystal fibers (SMPCFs) such as birefringence, effective area, confinement loss and dispersion are numerically investigated. The effects of dispersion in an ROF communication are also analysed in detail. Coding and simulation of the problem have been done using MATLAB and COMSOL softwares.

Keywords

birefringence; encoding; holey fibres; mathematics computing; nematic liquid crystals; numerical analysis; optical design techniques; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre theory; optical glass; photonic crystals; radio-over-fibre; COMSOL software; MATLAB software; PCF core region; ROF applications; ROF communication; SMPCF; birefringence; cladding region; coding; confinement loss; effective area; fiber dispersion; fiber parameters; hexagonal solid core liquid crystal PCF design; infiltrated photonic crystal fibers; linear light propagation; nematic liquid crystal filled holes; radio over fiber system; single mode photonic crystal fibers; soft glass; wavelength dependent fundamental optical characteristics; Materials; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Refractive index; birefringence; confinement loss; dispersion; effective area;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Engineering (ICOE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgaum

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2461-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2462-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOE.2012.6409567

Filename

6409567