Highly nonlinear bored core hexagonal photonic crystal fiber (BC-HPCF) with ultra-high negative dispersion for fiber optic transmission system

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a bored core hexagonal photonic crystal fiber (BC-HPCF) which obtains ultra-high negative dispersion and large nonlinearity simultaneously. The aim of the proposed design is to achieve the desired optical properties by using circular air holes only to make the fiber simple and manufacturable. To investigate the light guiding properties of the proposed BC-HPCF, finite element method (FEM) with circular perfectly matched boundary layer (PML) is used. According to numerical simulation, it is possible to obtain a large value of negative dispersion of −2102 ps·nm⁻¹·km⁻¹ and large value of nonlinearity of 111.6 W⁻¹·km⁻¹ at optimum wavelength of 1550 nm. In addition, ±2% deviation in optical characteristics is evaluated and reported in order to study the practical feasibility of the proposed BC-HPCF. The large negative dispersion and high nonlinearity of our proposed design make it a strong candidate for optical broadband communication, super continuum generation, and sensing.

Keywords

photonic crystal fiber (PCF) / dispersion / nonlinearity / optical broadband communication

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