Determination of liquid crystal filled photonic crystal fiber parameters and nonlinear effects in supercontinuum generation

Author

Johny, J. ; Shashidharan, S.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

592

Lastpage

596

Abstract

We investigate a linear light propagation mechanism in the photonic crystal fibers infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals which is used for supercontinuum generation application. 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 investigate. Coding and simulation of the problem have been done using MATLAB and COMSOL softwares. The effects of fiber bragg grating in liquid crystal filled photonic crystal leading to supercontinuum generation are discussed here.

Keywords

birefringence; holey fibres; nematic liquid crystals; optical fibre losses; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; birefringence; cladding region; confinement loss; effective area; hexagonal solid core liquid crystal; light dispersion; linear light propagation mechanism; liquid crystal filled photonic crystal fiber parameters; nematic liquid crystals; nonlinear effects; soft glass; supercontinuum generation; Materials; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Refractive index; birefringence; confinement loss; dispersion; effective area;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2012 4th International Congress on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

ISSN

2157-0221

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2016-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUMT.2012.6459735

Filename

6459735