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A. Ortigosa-Blanch, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, J. Arriaga, B. J. Mangan, T. A. Birks, P. St and J. Russell, “Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibers,” Optics Letter, Vol. 25, No. 18, 2000, pp. 1325-1327.

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• TITLE: Highly Nonlinear Bending-Insensitive Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibres

  AUTHORS: Huseyin Ademgil, Shyqyri Haxha, Fathi AbdelMalek

  KEYWORDS: Nonlinear Coefficient, Effective Mode Area, Confinement Loss and Birefringence

  JOURNAL NAME: Engineering, Vol.2 No.8, September 9, 2010

  ABSTRACT: Highly nonlinear birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibre (PCF) that exhibits low losses and small effective mode area across a wide wavelength range has been presented. The effects of angular orientation on bending losses of the proposed PCFs have been thoroughly investigated by employing a full vectorial finite element method (FEM). It has been demonstrated that it is possible to design a bending-insensitive nonlinear PCF with a birefringence in the order of 10-2 and a nonlinear coefficient of 49 W-1km-1 at the wavelength of 1.55 μm. Also, significant improvements on key propagation characteristics of the proposed PCFs have been demonstrated by carefully altering the desired air hole diameters and the hole-to-hole spacing. It is demonstrated that two zero dispersion wavelengths can be achieved by the proposed design.