Design and optimization of photonic crystal fiber with improved optical characteristics

Abstract

A highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with large nonlinearity, low dispersion and low confinement loss is designed by introducing a solid elliptical core structure with spiral lattice of circular air holes as a cladding. The dependence of different geometrical parameters, such as pitch size, diameter of air holes and arrangement of air holes are investigated. By optimizing the available parameters, the designed elliptical–spiral PCF offers high birefringence up to 0.005264, high nonlinearity up to 8683.59[Formula: see text]W[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]km[Formula: see text], low chromatic dispersion of [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]ps/nm/km, and low confinement loss of 0.00305[Formula: see text]dB/km within a wide wavelength range of 1000–2000[Formula: see text]nm.