Numerical modeling of photonic crystal fibers

Author

Saitoh, Kunimasa ; Koshiba, Masanori

Author_Institution

Div. of Media & Network Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan

Volume

23

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

3580

Lastpage

3590

Abstract

Recent progress on numerical modeling methods for photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) such as the effective index approach, basis-function expansion approach, and numerical approach is described. An index-guiding PCF with an array of air holes surrounding the silica core region has special characteristics compared with conventional single-mode fibers (SMFs). Using a full modal vector model, the fundamental characteristics of PCFs such as cutoff wavelength, confinement loss, modal birefringence, and chromatic dispersion are numerically investigated.

Keywords

birefringence; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; photonic crystals; PCF; basis-function expansion approach; chromatic dispersion; confinement loss; cutoff wavelength; effective index; full modal vector model; modal birefringence; photonic crystal fibers; Birefringence; Chromatic dispersion; Finite difference methods; Numerical models; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; Silicon compounds; Time domain analysis; Finite-element method; holey fiber; microstructured optical fiber; numerical modeling; photonic band-gap fiber; photonic crystal fiber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.855855

Filename

1561387