Phase and group modal birefringence of an index-guiding photonic crystal fibre with helical air holes |
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Authors: | Yang Yue Guiyun Kai Zhi Wang Yan Li Chunshu Zhang Yunfei Lu Tingting Sun Long Jin Jianguo Liu Yange Liu Shuzhong Yuan Xiaoyi Dong |
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Institution: | Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we propose a novel photonic crystal fibre (PCF) with high phase birefringence and very low group birefringence. It is composed of a solid silica core and a cladding with helix-pattern air holes. Using a full-vector finite-element method, we study the phase and group modal birefringence of such PCF at various air-hole sizes, pitches and wavelengths. Owing to this innovative structure of air holes, a high phase to group modal birefringence rate is obtained. Its phase modal birefringence is as large as 10−4 magnitude; however, the group modal birefringence of this PCF is at 10−7-10−6. The phase birefringence is 2 orders of magnitude larger than group birefringence over a broad wavelength span, which means that the light with different polarization and effective index has almost a same group velocity. As a result, the group modal birefringence that closely relates to the polarization modal dispersion is negligible. |
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Keywords: | Photonic crystal fibre Birefringence Polarization Finite-element method |
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