Waveguiding properties of a photonic crystal fiber with a solid core surrounded by four large air holes.
The polarization-dependent guiding properties of a hexagonal-lattice photonic crystal fiber with a solid-core surrounded by four large air holes are investigated. The appearance of a polarization dependent cutoff frequency, together with several parameters as the birefringence, the modal effective area, the group velocity dispersion and the polarization dependent loss are analyzed. A collection of fibers with different structural parameters were fabricated and characterized. An effective anti-guide structure from at least 450 nm to 1750 nm, a polarizing fiber with a polarization dependent loss of 16 dB/m at 1550 nm, and an endlessly singlemode polarization-maintaining fiber with group birefringence of 2.1x10(-3) at 1550 nm are reported. Experimental results are compared with accurate numerical modeling of the fibers.
Delgado-Pinar
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Departamento de Física Aplicada-ICMUV, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Spain.
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Torres-Peiró
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Andrés
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Pinheiro-Ortega
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Silvestre
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055100:Optical Fibers; D017785:Photons; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity