Highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber with hybrid cladding structure

Jianhua Li; Rong Wang; Jingyuan Wang; Baofu Zhang; Hua Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.888130

19 January 2011 Highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber with hybrid cladding structure

Jianhua Li, Rong Wang, Jingyuan Wang, Baofu Zhang, Hua Zhou

Proceedings Volume 7986, Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices VII; 79860R (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888130
Event: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2010, Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Abstract

A novel highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with hybrid cladding is proposed. In this hybrid structural PCF, some air holes of the cladding are selectively filled with high refractive index material. The increased birefringence mainly results from that the symmetry is destroyed further in the designed PCF. The birefringence is theoretically investigated with variant structural parameters and refractive index of the filled material. The plane wave expansion method (PWE) and full-vector finite-element method (FEM) are respectively employed to investigate the optical properties of the proposed PCF. The numerical results show that the designed PCF can provide high birefringence and be well tuned by the structural parameters and refractive index of the filled material. It can be used as all-fiber polarization controllers and highly sensitive sensors.

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Jianhua Li, Rong Wang, Jingyuan Wang, Baofu Zhang, and Hua Zhou "Highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber with hybrid cladding structure", Proc. SPIE 7986, Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices VII, 79860R (19 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888130

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