Design of New Photonic Crystal Fiber for Orbital Angular Momentum Modes Transmission

Abstract

In order to achieve the flexibility and miniaturization of orbital angular momentum (OAM) fiber coupler, it is necessary to continuously design and optimize the base fiber to cooperate with the efficient transmission of multiplexed beam. It is more advantageous to use the photonic crystal fiber (PCF) instead of ring fiber in the coupler design. We have proposed a new fiber based on circular PCF structure to support high performance OAM modes transmission. The optimal parameters are selected to realize the stable transmission of 4 OAM mode groups with high mode quality. In the wavelength range of 1.2 μm∼2.0 μm, the confinement loss of low order mode is less than 10−8 dB/m, and the mode purity is more than 81.7%. Because of its flexible structure and low loss characteristics, the proposed OAM fiber can be widely used in the design of optical fiber devices in modular division multiplexing (MDM) communication systems.