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Design and analysis of high birefringence and nonlinearity with small confinement loss photonic crystal fiber

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High birefringence with low confinement loss photonic crystal fiber (PCF) has significant advantages in the field of sensing, dispersion compensation devices, nonlinear applications, and polarization filter. In this report, two different models of PCFs are presented and compared. Both the models contain five air holes rings with combination of circular and elliptical air holes arrangement. Moreover, the elliptical shaped air holes polarization and the third ring air holes rotational angle are varied. To examine different guiding characteristics, finite element method (FEM) with perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundary condition is applied from 1.2 to 1.8 μm wavelength range. High birefringence, low confinement loss, high nonlinearity, and moderate dispersion values are successfully achieved in both the PCFs models. Numeric analysis shows that model-1 gives higher birefringence (2.75 × 10–2) and negative dispersion (–540.67 ps/(nm$km)) at 1.55 μm wavelength. However, model-2 gives more small confinement loss than model-1 at the same wavelength. In addition, the proposed design demonstrates the variation of rotation angle has great impact to enhance guiding properties especially the birefringence.

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    Rekha Saha, Md. Mahbub Hossain, Md. Ekhlasur Rahaman & Himadri Shekhar Mondal

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Rekha Saha completed her B.Sc. Engg. and M.Sc. Engg. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering Discipline from Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh, in the year of 2015 and 2018, respectively. She secured 1st position both in B.Sc. and M.Sc. in her Discipline. Her research interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical biosensor, and photonic crystal fiber.

Md. Mahbub Hossain received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. Engineering degrees from Electronics and Communication Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna- 9208, Bangladesh, in the year of 2003 and 2014, respectively. Mr. Mahbub is currently a Faculty Member with the Electronics and Communication Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh. His research interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical biosensor, photonic crystal fiber, and wireless communication.

Md. Ekhlasur Rahaman received the B. Sc. Engg. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and the M.Sc. Engg. degree also in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh, in the year of 2015 and 2018, respectively. He was awarded National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship, Bangladesh for M.Sc. Engg. thesis work. He has published several papers in journals as well as in the proceedings of IEEE flagship/portfolio conferences. His research interests are cloud computing, nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical bio-sensor, photonic crystal fiber, and laser processing of materials.

Himadri Shekhar Mondal received his B. Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Himadri does research on optics, opto-electronics, distributed computing and cloud computing.

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Saha, R., Hossain, M.M., Rahaman, M.E. et al. Design and analysis of high birefringence and nonlinearity with small confinement loss photonic crystal fiber. Front. Optoelectron. 12, 165–173 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-018-0837-6

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