Academic literature on the topic 'Triangular lattice index-guiding photonic crystal fiber'

This paper presents a triangular-lattice photonic crystal fiber for broadband dispersion compensation. The finite element method with perfectly matched absorbing layers boundary condition is used to investigate the guiding properties. The designed dispersion compensating fiber shows that it is possible to obtain a larger negative dispersion coefficient of ?360 ps/(nm.km) at 1.55 ?m, better dispersion slope compensation, better compensation ratio in the entire telecommunication (1460-1640 nm) band by using a modest number of design parameters and very simple cladding design.

In this letter, we numerically demonstrate a hybrid-core microstructure fiber for low-loss terahertz guidance. Finite element method with circular perfectly matched layer boundary condition is applied to characterize the guiding properties. It is shown that by using a triangular-core inside a square lattice microstructure exhibits ultra-low effective material loss (EML) of 0.169 dB/cm and low confinement loss of 0.087 dB/cm at the operating frequency of 0.75 THz. We also discuss how other guiding properties including power fraction, single mode propagation and dispersion vary with changing of core diameter and operating frequencies. This low-loss microstructure fiber can be effectively used in numerous applications in the THz regime. Full Text: PDF ReferencesJ. J. Bai, J. N. Li, H. Zhang, H. Fang, S. J. Chang, "A porous terahertz fiber with randomly distributed air holes", Appl. Phys. B 103, 2 (2011). CrossRef S. Atakaramians, S. Afshar, B. M. Fischer, D. Abbott, T. M. Monro, "Porous fibers: a novel approach to low loss THz waveguides", Opt. Express 16, 12 (2008). CrossRef K. Wang, D. M. Mittleman, "Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding", Nature 432, 7015 (2004). CrossRef R. Islam, G. K. M. Hasanuzzaman, M. S. Habib, S. Rana, M. A. G. Khan, "Low-loss rotated porous core hexagonal single-mode fiber in THz regime", Opt. Fiber Technol. 24, (2015). CrossRef M. I. Hasan, S. M. A. Razzak, G. K. M. Hasanuzzaman, M. S.Habib, "Ultra-Low Material Loss and Dispersion Flattened Fiber for THz Transmission", IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 26, 23 (2014). CrossRef S. F. Kaijage, Z. Ouyang, X. Jin, "Porous-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber for Low Loss Terahertz Wave Guiding", IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 25, 15 (2013). CrossRef M. R. Hasan, M. A. Islam, A. A. Rifat, "A single mode porous-core square lattice photonic crystal fiber for THz wave propagation", J. Eur. Opt. Soc. Rapid Publ. 12, 1 (2016). CrossRef M. R. Hasan, M. A. Islam, M. S. Anower, S. M. A. Razzak, "Low-loss and bend-insensitive terahertz fiber using a rhombic-shaped core", Appl. Opt. 55, 30 (2016). CrossRef S. Ali et al. "Ultra-low loss THz waveguide with flat EML and near zero flat dispersion properties", in 9th Int. Conf. on Elect. and Comp. Eng., IEEE, (2016). CrossRef K. Nielsen, H. K. Rasmussen, A. J. Adam, P. C. Planken, O. Bang, P. U. Jepsen, "Bendable, low-loss Topas fibers for the terahertz frequency range", Opt. Express 17, 10 (2009). CrossRef A. W. Snyder, J. D. Love, Optical waveguide theory (London, Chapman & Hall 1983). DirectLink L. Vincetti, A. Polemi, in Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, IEEE (2009)G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear fiber optics (Boston, Academic Press 1989). CrossRef B. S. Williams, "Terahertz quantum-cascade lasers", Nat. Photon. 1, 9 (2007). CrossRef H. W. Hubers et al. "Terahertz quantum cascade laser as local oscillator in a heterodyne receiver", Opt. Express 13, 15 (2005). CrossRef

In this paper, we present the propagation characteristics of Fluoropolymer based Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) exhibiting guiding properties in terahertz region. The variation of effective index of guided mode and dispersion with wavelength in hexagonal lattice Fluoropolymer PCF are investigated by using the fully-vectorial finite element method (FEM).

The development of all optical communications could benefit from the index guiding photonic crystal fibers. In communication the photonic crystal fibers could provide many new solutions. Conventional optical fibers have within the last decades revolutionized the communications industry and it is today a mature technology being pushed to its limit with respect to properties such as losses, single mode operation and dispersion. The spectra have been used by others to develop optical frequency standards. The process can potentially be used for frequency conversion in fiber optic network. In this system the dispersive properties can be controlled by the optical lattice making it possible to achieve phase-matched four wave mixing, like look the process taking place in the photonic crystal fibers. In this paper we will discuss the use of photonic crystal fibers in communications.

Abstract An index-guiding novel solid-core photonic crystal fiber (SC-PCF) formed by a hexagonal lattice of circular-shaped air holes arranged in silicon background is realized. By varying the radius ‘r’ of the air holes from 0.1a to 0.5a (where ‘a’ is defined as the lattice constant), the characteristic electromagnetic modes of the low loss Terahertz (THz) fiber were solved through eigenmode analysis using finite element method (FEM). The effective mode area and the nonlinearity of the proposed PCF are calculated for different radii of the air holes and it is found that the effective mode area decreases when the radius of the air holes is increased. On the other hand, the nonlinearity increases for an increase in the air holes radii. At 1 THz, the confinement loss of the proposed fiber is in the order of 10−23 dB/m and transmittance efficiency above 96% has been attained. As 5-G technology emanates, THz wave propagation becomes essential and the designed hexagonal lattice SC-PCF will be useful for the advancement of communication systems, sensing devices and several medical applications.

Abstract A broad review is given of microstructured fiber optics components - light guides, image guides, multicapillary arrays, and photonic crystal fibers - fabricated using the stack-and-draw method from various in-house synthesized oxide soft glasses at the Glass Department of the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME). The discussion covers fundamental aspects of stack-and-draw technology used at ITME, through design methods, soft glass material issues and parameters, to demonstration of representative examples of fabricated structures and an experimental characterization of their optical properties and results obtained in typical applications. Specifically, demonstrators include microstructured image guides providing resolution of up to 16000 pixels sized up to 20 μm in diameter, and various photonic crystal fibers (PCFs): index-guiding regular lattice air-hole PCFs, hollow core photonic bandgap PCFs, or specialty PCFs like highly birefringent microstructured fibers or highly nonlinear fibers for supercontinuum generation. The presented content is put into context of previous work in the area reported by the group of authors, as well as other research teams.

In this paper, triangular lattice index-guiding photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) are synthesized to compensate the chromatic dispersion of a single mode fiber (SMF-28) for an 80 km optical link operating at 1.55 µm, by using the directed tabu search algorithm. Hole-to-hole distance, circular air-hole diameter, solid-core diameter, ring number and PCF length parameters are optimized for this purpose. Three Synthesized PCFs with different physical parameters are compared in terms of their objective functions values, residual dispersions and compensation ratios.

It is common belief that photonic crystals behave similarly to isotropic and transparent media only when their feature sizes are much smaller than the wavelength of light. Here, we counter that belief and we report on photonic crystals that are transparent for anomalously high normalized frequencies up to 0.9, where the crystal’s feature sizes are comparable with the free space wavelength. Using traditional photonic band theory, we demonstrate that the isofrequency curves can be circular in the region above the first stop band for triangular lattice photonic crystals. In addition, by simulating how efficiently a tightly focused Gaussian beam propagates through the photonic crystal slab, we judge on the photonic crystal’s transparency rather than on isotropy only. Using this approach, we identified a wide range of photonic crystal parameters that provide anomalous transparency. Our findings indicate the possibility to scale up the features of photonic crystals and to extend their operational wavelength range for applications including optical cloaking and graded index guiding. We applied our result in the domain of femtosecond laser micromachining, by demonstrating what we believe to be the first point-by-point grating inscribed in a multi-ring photonic crystal fiber.