High Birefringent ENZ Photonic Crystal Fibers

A novel photonic crystal fiber (PCF) design that has a simple circular air hole configuration is reported that yields a very high birefringence. The enhanced birefringence is achieved by filling a select number of the air holes in its cladding with an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) material to break the in...

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Published in2018 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD) pp. 85 - 86
Main Authors Yang, Tianyu, Ding, Can, Ziolkowski, Richard W., Guo, Y. Jay
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2018
Subjects
Birefringence
fiber characterization
fiber materials
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical fibers
Optical losses
Optimized production technology
photonic crystal fiber (PCF)
Photonic crystal fibers
Refractive index
simulations
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Summary:A novel photonic crystal fiber (PCF) design that has a simple circular air hole configuration is reported that yields a very high birefringence. The enhanced birefringence is achieved by filling a select number of the air holes in its cladding with an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) material to break the index symmetry of its X- and Y-polarization states. Comparisons of initial numerical simulations based on ideal ENZ materials and then those based on realistic ones demonstrate that the high birefringence property is still maintainable with currently available ENZ materials.
ISSN:2158-3242
DOI:10.1109/NUSOD.2018.8570268