An Extended FDTD Method With Inclusion of Material Dispersion for the Full-Vectorial Analysis of Photonic Crystal Fibers

Author

Jiang, Wei ; Shen, Linfang ; Chen, Daru ; Chi, Hao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA

Volume

24

Issue

11

fYear

2006

Firstpage

4417

Lastpage

4423

Abstract

An extended finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method with inclusion of material dispersion for the full-vectorial analysis of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) is presented in this paper. In order for this extended FDTD method to obtain a fast convergence and high accuracy, a constitutive-parameter averaging technique is employed. Numerical results for a typical PCF verify the validity of the extended FDTD method. With this FDTD mode solver, a new birefringent PCF is also investigated, and interesting results are obtained in this paper

Keywords

birefringence; finite difference time-domain analysis; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; photonic crystals; FDTD method; birefringent PCF; constitutive-parameter averaging technique; finite-difference time-domain; material dispersion; photonic crystal fibers; Birefringence; Convergence; Crystalline materials; Finite difference methods; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Photonic crystal fibers; Time domain analysis; Birefringence; finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD); material dispersion; photonic crystal fiber (PCF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2006.883651

Filename

4012235