Highly Birefringent Elliptical-Hole Photonic Crystal Fiber With Two Big Circular Air Holes Adjacent to the Core

Author

Yue, Yang ; Kai, Guiyun ; Wang, Zhi ; Lu, Yunfei ; Zhang, Chunshu ; Sun, Tingting ; Li, Yan ; Jin, Long ; Liu, Jianguo ; Liu, Yange ; Yuan, Shuzhong ; Dong, Xiaoyi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Modern Opt., Nankai Univ., Tianjin

Volume

18

Issue

24

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2638

Lastpage

2640

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a novel design for a polarization-maintaining index-guiding photonic crystal fiber (PCF). It is composed of a solid silica core, two big circular air holes near the core, and a cladding with elliptical air holes. Using a full-vector finite-element method, we study the modal birefringence of the fundamental mode in such a PCF. The numerical result shows that very high modal birefringence with magnitude of order of 10^-3 has been obtained, which are higher than the birefringence induced by adding two big air holes near the core or using elliptical air holes in cladding separately

Keywords

Birefringence; Finite element methods; Optical design; Optical fiber polarization; Optical reflection; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; Silicon compounds; Solids; Sun; Birefringence; finite-element method; photonic crystal fiber (PCF); polarization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.887330

Filename

4026634