analysis of high birefringence of four types of photonic crystal fiber by combining circular and elliptical air holes in fiber cladding分析四种类型的高双折射光子晶体光纤通过圆形和椭圆光纤包层空气孔.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Nonlinear Optics Volume 2008, Article ID 239037, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2008/239037 Research Article Analysis of High Birefringence of Four Types of Photonic Crystal Fiber by Combining Circular and Elliptical Air Holes in Fiber Cladding Yuan-Fong Chau,1 Han-Hsuan Yeh,1 and Din Ping Tsai2 1 Department of Electronic Engineering, Ching Yun University, Jung-Li 320, Taiwan 2 Department of Physics and Center of Nanostorage Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Yuan-Fong Chau, yfc01@.tw Received 1 October 2008; Accepted 8 December 2008 Recommended by N. Broderick This paper presents a numerical study of high birefringence induced by four types (Type 1–4) of different sizes of elliptical air holes in photonic crystal fibers (PCFs). The numerical simulation is carried out by using the finite element method. The statistical correlations between the birefringence and the various parameters are obtained. Based on our results, the birefringence is found to be largely dependent on the variation of the normalized frequency, size ratio, effective area of the circular and elliptical air holes, and the ring number of cladding. Two of our suggested structures, Type 1 and Type 3, can considerably enhance the birefringence in PCFs leading to values as high as 7.697 × 10−3 and 8.002 × 10−3 , respectively, which are much higher than that obtained by a conventional step-index fiber. Copyright © 2008 Yuan-Fong Chau et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION