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Analytical evaluation of chromatic dispersion in photonic crystal fibers
Juan Jose MiretEnrique SilvestrePedro AndrésA. Ortigosa-blanchTeresa Pinheiro-ortegasubject
Materials scienceOptical fiberbusiness.industryPhysics::OpticsAtomic and Molecular Physics and Opticslaw.inventionsymbols.namesakeFourier transformOpticslawDispersion (optics)symbolsPropagation constantAnisotropybusinessRefractive indexPhotonic-crystal fiberPhotonic crystaldescription
We present a two-dimensional modal approach for the evaluation, in an analytical manner, of chromatic dispersion in any kind of optical fiber. It combines an iterative Fourier technique to compute the propagation constant at any fixed wavelength and an analytical procedure to calculate its derivatives. The proposed formulation takes into account the effective anisotropy of the interfaces and allows us to deal with microstructured fibers, in general, and specifically with realistic photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), including arbitrary spatial refractive-index distributions of dispersive and absorbing materials. This fast and accurate numerical technique is extremely useful for both analysis and design. We show some results of analysis of PCFs with high anisotropy, and we also describe PCFs with new dispersive properties.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-03-26 | Optics Letters |