title: Waveguiding properties of a photonic crystal fiber with a solid core surrounded by four large air holes.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Aplicada-ICMUV, Universidad de Valencia, Burjasot, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delgado-Pinar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Díez
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Torres-Peiró
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Andrés
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pinheiro-Ortega
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Silvestre
mesh_terms: 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