Design of a broadband highly dispersive pure silica photonic crystal fiber

Harish Subbaraman; Tao Ling; YongQiang Jiang; Maggie Y Chen; Peiyan Cao; Ray T Chen

doi:10.1364/ao.46.003263

Design of a broadband highly dispersive pure silica photonic crystal fiber

Appl Opt. 2007 Jun 1;46(16):3263-8. doi: 10.1364/ao.46.003263.

Authors

Harish Subbaraman¹, Tao Ling, YongQiang Jiang, Maggie Y Chen, Peiyan Cao, Ray T Chen

Affiliation

¹ Microelectronic Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78758, USA.

PMID: 17514284
DOI: 10.1364/ao.46.003263

Abstract

A highly dispersive dual-concentric-core pure silica photonic crystal fiber is designed with a maximum chromatic dispersion value of about -9500 ps/(nm km) around the 1.56 microm wavelength region and a full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 55 nm. The change in the dispersion-bandwidth product as a function of period is carefully studied by using the plane wave expansion method. The coupled mode theory matches well with the plane wave expansion method that was used to simulate the chromatic dispersion. This kind of a photonic crystal fiber structure is suitable for high-dispersion application in phased array antenna systems based on photonic crystal fiber arrays.