TITLE:
Numerical Study of Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber with Tunable Zero Dispersion Wavelengths
AUTHORS:
Alejandro Barrientos García, Igor A. Sukhoivanov, José Amparo Andrade Lucio, Oscar Gerardo Ibarra Manzano, Igor Guryev, Juan Carlos Hernández García, Gabriel Ramos Ortiz
KEYWORDS:
Photonic Crystal Fibers, Supercontinuum Generation, Zero Dispersion Wavelength
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications,
Vol.7 No.5,
May
6,
2015
ABSTRACT: Solid-core silica photonic crystal fiber is
proposed borrowing the concept of golden ratio (1.618) and keeping it between
pitch and air hole diameter Λ/d in a
subset of six rings of air-holes with hexagonal arrangement. In the case when
we have a pitch equal to one micron (Λ = 1 μm), we need air-holes diameters d =
0.618 μm in order to achieve two zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) points at 725
nm and 1055 nm; this gives us the possibility to use the fiber for
supercontinuum generation, by pumping close to that points, pulse compression
or reshaping. We analyzed a series of fibers using this relation and showed the
possibilities of tunable ZDW in a wide range of wavelengths from 725 nm to 2000
nm, with low losses and small effective area. In agreement with the ZDW point
needed, the geometry of the structure can be modified to the point of having
only three rings of air holes that surround the solid core with low losses and
good confinement mode. The design proposed here is analyzed using the finite
element method with perfectly matched layers, including the material dispersion
directly into the model applying the Sellmeier’s equation.