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An Efficient Method of Monitoring PCF Properties during the Fabrication Process Liwen Wang *a,b , Shuqin Lou a,b , Weiguo Chena,b,Honglei Li a,b , Tieying Guo a,b a Key Lab of All Optical Network Advanced Telecommunication Network of EMC, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China; b Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China ABSTRACT It is very important for the photonic crystal fiber character to monitor its properties synchronously during the fabrication process so that a series of draw parameters can be efficiently optimized as PCF used to be produced. In this paper, we reported an efficient method to monitor PCF properties with the cross-section of the photonic crystal fiber collected by microscope and CCD. The structure parameters of the cross-section of PCF are fast picked up by digital process technology and the properties of the PCF produced are efficiently analyzed by a finite element method. The method is very helpful in optimizing the draw parameters and improving the properties of PCF. Keywords: photonic crystal fibers, digital image processing, edge detection, finite element method 1. INTRODUCTION Since the first experimental demonstration of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) in 1996 by Knight et al. [1], PCF have attracted significant attention due to their many unusual properties, such as an endlessly single mode, highly tunable dispersion, and highly controllable effective mode areas for linear and nonlinear applications [2] and so on. Fig.1 The cross-section of PCF with deformed or unsymmetrical air holes Nea