Design for photonic crystal fibers with high nonlinearity and flattened dispersion for self-frequency shift of Raman soliton

A new concept of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with high nonlinearity and flattened dispersion was designed. The PCF structure is indeed a hexagon lattice. The bigger air holes in the outer rings are used to confine the light field into the core region for enhancing the nonlinearity. The flattened dispersion can be achieved by adjusting the diameters of six smaller air holes in the first ring, and six micro air holes are inserted between smaller air holes for higher nonlinearity and the better flattened dispersion. By optimizing the size of the smaller and micro holes, the PCF can reach to high nonlinearity of 23.3 W⁻¹ · km⁻¹ and the low dispersion of 51.32 ps/(nm·km) with the fluctuation range of 0.98 ps/(nm·km), which is within the wavelength range of 1 400 nm to 1 900 nm. The designed PCF can be used in important applications in realizing the Raman soliton self-frequency shift (RSSFS).     

Design on a highly birefringent and highly nonlinear tellurite ellipse core photonic crystal fiber with two zero dispersion wavelengths

In this paper, a new photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with two zero dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs) based on the tellurite ellipse core is designed. The air holes in the cladding region have a V-shape distribution, which can increase the birefringence. By adjusting the size of tellurite ellipse core, different birefringence and nonlinearity coefficient can be obtained, and the dispersion can also be tailored. When the long axis of the tellurite ellipse core is 0.5 μm and the short axis is 0.25 μm, the birefringence of 7.66 × 10⁻² and nonlinearity of 3400 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ around 1550 nm are obtained. This PCF structure provides a way to get the high birefringence and nonlinearity at the same time, which can find extensive applications in the optical communication and sensor system.     

Photonic crystal fiber with novel dispersion properties

Our recent research on designing microstruc-tured fiber with novel dispersion properties is reported in this paper. Two kinds ofphotonic crystal fibers (PCFs) are introduced first. One is the highly nonlinear PCF with broadband nearly zero flatten dispersion. With introducing the germanium-doped (Ge-doped) core into highly non-linear PCF and optimizing the diameters of the first two inner rings of air holes, a new structure of highly non-linear PCF was designed with the nonlinear coefficient up to 47 W-1·km-1 at the wavelength 1.55 μm and nearly zero flattened dispersion of ±0.5 ps/(km·nm) in telecom-munication window (1460-1625nm). Another is the highly negative PCF with a ring of fluorin-doped (F-doped) rods to form its outer ring core while pure silica rods to form its inner core. The peak dispersion - 1064 ps/(km·nm) in 8 nm full width at half maximum (FWHM) wavelength range and -365ps/(km·nm) in 20nm (FWHM) wavelength range can be reached by adjusting the structure parameters. Then, our recent research on the fabrication of PCFs is reported. Effects of draw parameters such as drawing temperature, feed speed, and furnace temperature on the geometry of the final photonic crystal fiber are investigated.     

光子晶体光纤的色散特性分析

采用有效折射率模型分析了光子晶体光纤的色散特性，并给出了无限大空气玻璃微结构中基模的本征方程。分析结果表明光子晶体光纤具有奇异的色散特性，能在极大的波长范围内支持单模传输，在单模工作时可以具有反常波导色散。同时通过调整光子晶体光纤的结构参数(包括空气孔径和孔间距)可以移动零色散点的位置。最后讨论了大空气孔光子晶体光纤的特性及其在色散补偿中的应用。     

Investigation on chalcogenide and silica based photonic crystal fibers with circular and octagonal core

In this paper, a novel chalcogenide and silica photonic crystal fiber (PCF) structure is designed with circular air-holes located in the cladding and the various optical properties, namely, dispersion, nonlinearity and group velocity dispersion parameters are compared for two different core structures, namely, circular and octagonal. The objective is to obtain high nonlinearity with dispersion flattened PCF. The prime focus is to obtain high non-linear effects as it plays great role in speed and capacity of optical communications. The proposed chalcogenide octagonal and circular PCF exhibits a dispersion of +77.55 ps/(nm km) and +77.34 ps/(nm km), respectively, whereas, the nonlinearity is in the order of 4506 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ and 4498 W⁻¹ km⁻¹, respectively. Also, the silica octagonal and circular PCF exhibits a dispersion of +19.03 ps/(nm km) and +0.97 ps/(nm km) respectively, whereas the nonlinearity is in the order of 169.41 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ and 182.41 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ respectively.     

平坦色散高非线性光子晶体光纤的研究与制备

运用改进的全矢量有效折射率法(IFVEIM),研究了光子晶体光纤结构(PCF)参数改变时,光纤的色散系数、有效模场面积和非线性系数随波长的变化规律,深入地分析了光纤可调节的色散平坦特性和高非线性特性.课题组自行设计了一种在900nm附近具有低平坦色散高非线性特性的光子晶体光纤.并且在改进工艺的基础上,采用包层孔充气挤压法对其进行了制备,虽然制得的光纤各参数未达到设计值,但其在800～1000nm的波段内色散值仅为0.75ps/km/nm,非线性系数值则达到了30(W/km)-1,这在当前规则结构的纯硅光子晶体光纤中已经较高.     

小芯径折射率引导型光子晶体光纤的制备和研究

介绍一种小芯径折射率引导型光子晶体光纤(PCF)的拉制方法.制备出的光纤纤芯周围第一层空气孔发生形变,呈柚子形,其芯径为1.7μm,孔间距A和空气孔直径d分别为3.4 μm和2.8μm.由于光纤结构的特殊性,采用有限元法在200～1600 nm波段对其基模有效折射率、色散系数、有效模场面积以及非线性系数进行了数值模拟计算.经过理论计算,这种光纤在所研究的波段具有极高的非线性系数且表现为反常色散,这些特性十分有利于超连续谱的产生.在测量了光纤的损耗、色散等基本特性后,选取损耗较小凡位于光纤反常色散区域,中心波长为800 nm的飞秒激光作为光源,将不同功率的超短激光脉冲耦合入光纤,对这种小芯径折射率引导型光子晶体光纤产生超连续谱的过程进行了测量和分析.     

Design of Wideband Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Fiber

The present paper proposes a novel design for achieving single-polarization single-mode (SPSM) operation in photonic crystal fiber (PCF), using a rectangular-lattice PCF with two lines of three central air holes enlarged. The proposed PCF that is composed entirely of silica material is modeled by a full-vector finite element method with anisotropic perfectly matched layers. The position of the region of single polarization can be tuned freely by adjusting the size of the central enlarged air holes. Using this structure, an SPSM PCF with confinement loss less than 0.1 dB/km within the wavelength range from 1.20 to 1.66 mum and effective mode area about 5.9 mum² at 1.55 mum has been successfully designed. The proposed fiber is a nonlinear SPSM, which may be useful for nonlinear optical applications or applications with a wide SPSM operating bandwidth requirement     

高非线性液芯光子晶体光纤中超连续谱的产生

提出了一种实现高非线性光子晶体光纤(PCF)的新方法,即在空芯光子晶体光纤(HC-PCF)的纤芯空气孔中填充高折射率、高非线性折射率的液态物质三氯甲烷、甲苯、二硫化碳等。利用全矢量有限元方法分析了这种液芯光子晶体光纤的模式分布及色散性质,分析得出其零色散波长可在800 nm左右调节,因此可使中心波长800 nm的钛宝石飞秒脉冲激光在这种光子晶体光纤的反常色散区传输,有利于超连续谱的产生。而且由于填充后光子晶体光纤具有较高的非线性系数,较小功率的脉冲激光就可在几毫米长的这种液芯光子晶体光纤中得到频谱范围大于1000 nm的超连续谱。     

零模间色散三芯光子晶体光纤

为了研究纤芯掺杂低折射率材料后三芯光子晶体光纤中任意两超模之间的模间色散特性,采用全矢量有限元法进行了仿真,取得了模间色散系数、零模间色散波长随纤芯折射率和结构参量变化的数据。结果表明,通过调节纤芯折射率、纤芯直径、空气孔直径以及孔间距这4个结构参量,可以使任意两超模间的模间色散在两个常用波段1.31m和1.55m处为0。该结果对于消除基于模分复用的光纤不同模式间因为模间色散导致的脉冲失真和实现零模间色散的模分复用技术是有帮助的。     

Highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers with flattened dispersion and low confinement loss

A highly birefringent index-guiding photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with flattened dispersion and low confinement loss is proposed by introducing two small air holes with the same diameter in the core area. The fundamental mode field, birefringence, confinement loss, effective mode area and dispersion characteristic of the fibers are studied by the full-vector finite element method (FEM). Simulation results show that a high birefringence with the order of 10 -3 and a low confinement loss of 0.001 dB/km are obtained at 1550 nm. Furthermore, flattened chromatic dispersion from 1450 nm to 1590 nm is obtained.     

A highly nonlinear photonic quasi-crystal fiber with low confinement loss and flattened dispersion

We proposed a novel photonic quasi-crystal fiber with near-zero flattened dispersion, highly nonlinear coefficient, and low confinement loss by using the dual concentric core structure. By optimizing the structure parameter, the proposed photonic quasi-crystal fiber can achieve a nonlinear coefficient larger than 33 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ and near-zero flatten dispersion of 0 ± 3.4 ps/nm/km with a near-zero dispersion slope of 8.5 × 10⁻³ ps/nm²/km at the wavelength of 1550 nm. Near-zero flattened dispersion and low confinement loss in the ultralow order of 10⁻⁷ dB/m are simultaneously obtained in the wavelength range from 1373 to 1627 nm. Furthermore, two zero dispersion wavelengths can be achieved in a wide wavelength ranger from 1373 to 1725 nm. From the point of view of practical fabrication, the influence of deviation of each air hole diameter within 3% of imperfections on dispersion, nonlinearity, and is discussed to verify the robustness of our design.     

掺Yb3+铝硅酸盐玻璃纤芯的光子晶体光纤

为了获得用于掺Yb3+脉冲光纤激光器的具有反常色散的光子晶体光纤,设计了一种掺Yb3+铝硅酸盐玻璃纤芯的结构,包层部分为普通的六边形结构,分布着直径相同的空气孔,其纤芯横截面为椭圆形,在包层和纤芯之间设计了4个小椭圆空气孔。研究了包层的空气孔直径d与空气孔中心间距Λ以及二者的比值d/Λ这些参量变化时,色散随波长变化的情况;同时研究了4个小孔对色散和双折射的影响。结果表明,这一结构的光子晶体光纤,当Λ=2.3μm、d/Λ=0.5时色散呈现反常色散,作为掺Yb3+脉冲光纤激光器的增益部分是可行的。该研究对掺Yb3+光子晶体光纤在脉冲光纤激光器方面的使用是有帮助的。     

接近于零色散的色散平坦光子晶体光纤的数值模拟与分析

基于标量近似理论利用有效折射率方法对低空气填充率的光子晶体光纤 (PCF)的色散特性进行了数值模拟。发现通过调节光纤包层的空气穴节距或空气穴大小可以有效地调节光子晶体光纤的色散特性 ,可以实现光子晶体光纤零色散波长向短波方向 (小于石英材料的零色散波长 1 2 7μm)移动 ,甚至在光通信波段出现两个零色散波长 ;可以设计在光通信波段接近于零色散的色散平坦光子晶体光纤 ,其色散系数D的绝对值在 1 2～ 1 7μm波长范围小于 2 0 ps·km-1·nm-1,其色散斜率D′的绝对值小于 0 0 2 ps·km-1·nm-2 。     

光子晶体光纤的设计与应用研究综述

光子晶体光纤具有较强的可设计性,一般通过改变光子晶体光纤包层中空气孔的大小、形状或者排列方式对光纤的传输特性进行调节,以此实现高双折射、高非线性、平坦色散及低限制性损耗等特性。光子晶体光纤的传输特性在不同领域中具有较大的应用价值,如分布式传感、飞秒激光器和气体传感器等。文章首先介绍了光子晶体光纤的结构特征以及与普通单模光纤的区别,在此基础上针对各种典型的光子晶体光纤结构分析了其色散和非线性等传输特性。详细介绍了基于光子晶体光纤的分布式光纤传感、飞秒激光器和气体传感器的传感机理以及达到的传感性能,并与非基于光子晶体光纤的传感器的传感性能进行了比较,验证了基于光子晶体光纤传感器的优异性能。最后对光子晶体光纤的发展及应用进行了总结与展望。     

新型光子晶体光纤近零平坦色散的研究

文章作者设计了一种新型的光子晶体光纤(PCF),在纤芯引入了一个小空气孔形成缺陷,并改变第一层空气孔的直径.采用平面波法研究了该PCF的色散特性,结果表明,该光纤能够得到比传统的PCF更低、更平坦的色散曲线;通过优化该光纤的结构参数,可以设计在1 350～2 010 nm波长范围内近于零的平坦色散PCF,其色散变化△D＜0.5 ps/(km·nm),在1 320～2 040 nm波长范围内色散斜率变化△D<,slope>＜0.02 ps/(km·nm<'2>).     

Large anomalous dispersion at short wavelength and modal properties of a photonic crystal fiber with large air holes

We investigated the dispersion and modal properties of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with larger air holes (LAH). The theoretical and numerical results show that large anomalous group-velocity dispersion at short wavelength down to around 700 /spl sim/ 800 nm can be achieved in a LAH-PCF with small pitch. Furthermore, the high-order modes usually are excited in a LAH-PCF when the optical field is launched from a traditional single-mode fiber, and all the excited modes will interfere when they propagate along the PCF. Finally, the properties of the excited modal spectrum and the multimode interference are determined by the normalized pitch and the normalized hole size of the PCF. All of these will provide references for the smoothing applications of the LAH-PCF.     

Design of a bending-insensitive single-mode photonic crystal fiber

We present a design of a bending-insensitive single-mode photonic crystal fiber (PCF) based on the existence of a triangular core formed by three neighboring air holes missing in the center of the fiber, and two cladding layers of air holes with different diameters. By optimizing the design parameters, the designed PCF with bending-insensitive characteristics can match the requirements of fiber to the home applications very well. Simulation results show that the designed PCF has an effectively single-mode operation, a small bending loss below 0.15 dB/m for the bending radius of 5 mm, as well as a stable effective mode area of 80 μm² whatever the designed PCF is straight or bent, which can connect well with conventional single-mode fibers (SMFs).     

Analysis on photonic crystal fibers with circular air holes in elliptical configuration

In this paper, two novel structures of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) containing elliptical rings of circular air holes are presented. The circular air holes in both structures are arranged in seven elliptical rings, but the number of holes in each ring is different for these structures. Moreover, air hole diameter and hole-to-hole pitch are altered along the distance from the center of the fiber’s cross section. Properties, such as birefringence and confinement loss, of these structures with different numbers of air hole rings are numerically analyzed by using the multipole method. Numerical results show that a high birefringence of 1.626 × 10⁻³ can be reached at the wavelength of 1.55 μm, and a low confinement loss on the order of 10⁻⁸ dB/m can be achieved at the same wavelength. Furthermore, it is also found that elliptic ratio obviously affects birefringence and confinement loss, but the number of air hole rings has little impact on birefringence.     

Ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion and highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibers with ultralow confinement loss employing hybrid cladding

In this paper, two new types of dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibers (DF-PCFs) with highly nonlinear and ultralow confinement loss are proposed. These new PCF structures adopt hybrid cladding with different air-holes diameters, pitches and air-holes arranged fashions. In order to analyze the proposed PCFs, the full-vector finite element method with anisotropic perfectly matched layers has been used. Results show that the ultra-flattened dispersion of 0.931 ps/(nm km) (DF-PCF1) and 1.533 ps/(nm km) (DF-PCF2) can be achieved in the wavelength range from 1.3 to 1.6 μm with confinement losses lower than 0.001 dB/km in the same wavelength range. Meanwhile, the nonlinear coefficients of our proposed PCFs are greater than 23.83 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ (DF-PCF1) and 29.65 W⁻¹ km⁻¹ (DF-PCF2) at the wavelength of 1.55 μm, and two near-zero dispersion values of 0.328 ps/(nm km) (DF-PCF1) and −0.015 ps/(nm km) (DF-PCF2) can also be obtained at the same wavelength. Furthermore, the influence of manufacturing imperfections of parameters on dispersion and nonlinearity is discussed to verify the robustness of our design.