Md. Jahid Hasan*, Shah Md. Salimullah and Ajmain Ar Rafi
Abstract: This study presents numerous optical parameters of a single material photonic crystal fiber (PCF) containing Arsenic trisulphide (As2S3) with a basic pandashaped solid core. The air hole diameter of this PCF is much larger than other PCFs. The number of total air holes in it is also less than in other PCFs, which simplifies its fabrication process. Optical characteristics, such as dispersion, phase birefringence, group birefringence, confinement loss, effective area, nonlinearity, numerical aperture, effective refractive index (RI), power fraction ratio, and relative sensitivity, are quantitatively explored for different scenarios of proposed PCF using the finite element method (FEM). Zero dispersion has been achieved at the wavelength of 1850 µm and 1920 µm with a pitch value of 5 µm and 5.2 µm respectively. The proposed fiber presents zero confinement loss for the wavelength of 1200 µm while the pitch value is 5 µm. Moreover, the fiber exhibits the highest sensitivity of 56.26% at a 1550 µm wavelength. The proposed structure might play a vibrant role in low-loss data transmission and chemical sensing applications.
Keywords: Photonic crystal fiber (PCF), finite element method (FEM), confinement loss (CL), refractive index (RI), chalcogenide (ChG)
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