Numerical modeling of photonic crystal fibers |
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Authors: | Saitoh K Koshiba M |
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Affiliation: | Div. of Media & Network Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan; |
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Abstract: | Recent progress on numerical modeling methods for photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) such as the effective index approach, basis-function expansion approach, and numerical approach is described. An index-guiding PCF with an array of air holes surrounding the silica core region has special characteristics compared with conventional single-mode fibers (SMFs). Using a full modal vector model, the fundamental characteristics of PCFs such as cutoff wavelength, confinement loss, modal birefringence, and chromatic dispersion are numerically investigated. |
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