Systematic design of highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
- Pub Date:
- March 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00340-017-6660-8
- Bibcode:
- 2017ApPhB.123...73H