“…Since their apparition for the first time in 1995 [2], PCFs have attracted a huge interest among the scientific community due to their several and unique optical properties. In fact, the high flexibility of the lattice design makes it possible the conception of PCFs with single mode behavior over a wide range of wavelengths [3], high birefringence [4][5][6][7][8][9], tailorable chromatic dispersion [10][11][12][13][14], high nonlinearity [15,16] and so on. Due to these properties, many potential applications can be achieved, such as: dispersion compensator fibers [17][18][19], polarization maintaining fibers [20][21][22], highly nonlinear fibers [23][24][25], supercontinuum generation [26], fiber based lasers [27][28][29], sensors [30][31][32], terahertz applications [33][34][35] etc.…”