Design and Analysis of High Birefringence Photonic Crystal Fiber with Sandwich Structure

Abstract

A novel photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with sandwich structure in cross section is proposed. Then the influences of the size of air holes in cladding on the propagation properties are investigated. By adjusting the size of air holes in cladding, the proposed PCF offers an ultrahigh birefringence of 3.85 × 10-2 and a large negative dispersion of - 1000 ps·km-1·nm-1 for the optimal structure of the fiber at the wavelength of 1550nm. The nonlinear coefficient of the optimal structure can reach a large value about 50W-1 ·km-1 at the wavelength of 1550nm. The proposed PCF may have some potential applications in the fields of long-distance optical communication and polarization maintaining fiber.