A Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber with Three Rows of Circular Air Holes

An exceptionally high-performance, high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is meticulously designed. The core design features a unique arrangement in which the central row of circular air holes is substituted by three rows of smaller circular holes. Subsequently, the middle row is adjusted to...

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Main Authors: Zihan Liu, Jialin Wen, Zhengyong Zhou, Yuming Dong, Tianyu Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
Series:Photonics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/10/5/527
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Summary:An exceptionally high-performance, high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is meticulously designed. The core design features a unique arrangement in which the central row of circular air holes is substituted by three rows of smaller circular holes. Subsequently, the middle row is adjusted to achieve various rectangular mode field configurations. With the optimized structure parameters, the birefringence of the PCF can reach 3.57 × 10<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> at a wavelength of 1.55 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">μ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>m. The confinement loss is as low as 8.4 × 10<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> dB/m. The nonlinear coefficient is up to 41 W<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>·km<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>. The dispersion is relatively flat within the range from 1.3 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">μ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>m to 1.9 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">μ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>m. These remarkable characteristics render the proposed PCF a strong candidate for applications in polarization preservation, dispersion compensation, wideband supercontinuum generation, and other related fields.
ISSN:2304-6732