Systematic design of highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers

This article systematically designs and theoretically investigates a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (HB-PCF) for reducing the effect of polarization mode dispersion in high-speed optical communication system. To achieve a high modal birefringence in the proposed HB-PCF, four types of HB-...

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Published in:Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics Lasers and optics, 2017-03, Vol.123 (3), p.1-9, Article 73
Main Author: Hsu, Jui-Ming
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied physics
Birefringence
Communications systems
Computer simulation
Crystal fibers
Design
Engineering
Lasers
Optical communication
Optical Devices
Optics
Photonic crystals
Photonics
Physical Chemistry
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Polarization mode dispersion
Quantum Optics
Single mode operation
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Summary:This article systematically designs and theoretically investigates a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (HB-PCF) for reducing the effect of polarization mode dispersion in high-speed optical communication system. To achieve a high modal birefringence in the proposed HB-PCF, four types of HB-PCF were designed by adding some birefringence-enhancing factors step by step in sequence. Ultimately, as per the simulation results, in the condition of single-mode operation, the numeric values of modal birefringence and confinement loss of the proposed HB-PCF is about 21.85 × 10 − 3 and 0.47 dB/km at the habitual wavelength λ  = 1.55 µm of optical-fiber communications.
ISSN:0946-2171
1432-0649
DOI:10.1007/s00340-017-6660-8