Efficient design of high tunable power splitter based on multi-core liquid crystal photonic crystal fiber

Author

Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O. ; Obayya, S.S.A.

Author_Institution

Center for Photonics & Smart Mater. Zewail City of Sci. & Technol., Giza, Egypt

fYear

2015

fDate

22-26 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The coupling characteristics of a novel design of high tunable multicore index guiding nematic liquid crystal photonic crystal fiber (NLC-PCF) coupler are introduced and analyzed. The influence of the structure geometrical parameters and temperature on the coupler performance is investigated. The numerical results reveal that the suggested coupler can be used as a transverse electric (TE) power splitter of length 5.637 mm with low crosstalk better than - 20 dB with great bandwidth of 25 nm around the operating wavelength of 1.55 μm.

Keywords

finite difference methods; holey fibres; liquid crystal devices; nematic liquid crystals; optical beam splitters; optical crosstalk; optical design techniques; photonic crystals; NLC-PCF; coupling characteristics; crosstalk; high tunable power splitter; multicore liquid crystal photonic crystal fiber; size 5.637 nm; transverse electric power splitter; wavelength 1.55 nm; Couplers; Couplings; Finite difference methods; Glass; Indexes; Multicore processing; Photonic crystal fibers; Finite difference methods; liquid crystal; photonic crystal fibers; power splitters; soft glass;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES), 2015 31st International Review of Progress in

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VA

Type

conf

Filename

7109695