Design of Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Fiber

Author

Wang Zhaojin ; Wang Ruohui ; He Qingli ; Fu Zhaosen ; Zhang Yani ; Liu Fei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Northwest Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Single-polarization single-mode (SPSM) micro structured polymer optical fiber (MPOF) is designed based on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) . A full vector finite element method together with beam propagation method are adopted to study the properties of SPSM. By optimization designing, we found that only one polarization state of the fundamental mode can be transmitted within the visible light region from 0.61μm to 0.74μm because of the different cutoff wavelength for two orthogonal polarization modes. For MPOF with 15 rings of hexagonally arrayed air-holes, the confinement loss of 0.084 dB/ m is obtained at the 0.65μm. This low loss SPSM-MPOF can greatly eliminate the polarization crosstalk and polarization mode dispersion.

Keywords

finite element analysis; holey fibres; light propagation; light transmission; optical crosstalk; optical design techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optimisation; photonic crystals; beam propagation method; confinement loss; full-vector finite element method; hexagonally arrayed air-holes; microstructured polymer optical fiber; optical design; optimization; orthogonal polarization modes; polarization crosstalk; polarization mode dispersion; single-mode photonic crystal fiber; single-polarization fiber; visible light transmission; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Periodic structures; Polymers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO), 2011 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2156-8464

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6555-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOPO.2011.5780583

Filename

5780583