Tellurite-filled hexa-circular-shaped PCF with highly nonlinearity, birefringent and near-zero dispersion profile for optical communications

Abstract

This manuscript focuses on devising a Tellurite-filled circular-timbered PCF that shows considerably highly birefringent and nonlinear characteristics. The impacts of numerous design parameters, such as birefringence (Br), nonlinear coefficients (NLC), confinement loss (CL), effective mode area (EMA), dispersion, numerical aperture (NA), etc. of the fiber are extensively inspected employing the commercially accessible and simulation- friendly COMSOL Software. Besides, the pertinent modal properties of the modeled fiber are rigorously characterized by operating the full-vector finite element method (FEM) with a perfectly matched layer (PML) boundary condition. The simulated findings affirm that the developed fiber exemplifies an ultra-high Br and NLC of 0.0924 and 18900 W-1Km-1 consecutively, at the operational wavelength of 1.55μm. Notably, the offered PCF also reveals a relatively lower CL, a negative-sloping dispersion and a higher EMA at the same wavelength. The pragmatic execution of the modeled fiber is expected to be doable applying the existing fabrication approaches and it can be applied in miscellaneous identical optical domains, namely polarization retention in long-distance communications, optical switching, sensor and laser layout, supercontinuum generation for frequency metrology and so forth.