Equal channel spacing Sagnac filter using high-birefringent photonic crystal fibers

• 作 者: 马秀荣 朱颖
• 机 构: School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Engineering Rese
• 出 处: Chinese Optics Letters
• 发表日期: 2010年10期
• 关键词: photonic spacing coupler magnitude pitch refractive cladding bandwidth length mu

An equal channel spacing Sagnac filter is proposed using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with birefringence square to the operation wavelength. A PCF with four smaller central air holes sur-rounded by larger air holes is applied in a Sagnac filter with optimized parameters to achieve equal channel spacing of 0.8 nm. Given that the birefringence of this PCF is square to the operation wavelength, the channel spacing of the proposed filter changes by only 0.03 nm within a wavelength range from 1400 to 1650 nm; this is about one order of magnitude less than that constructed with conventional high-birefringent fibers.

An equal channel spacing Sagnac filter is proposed using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with birefringence square to the operation wavelength. A PCF with four smaller central air holes sur-rounded by larger air holes is applied in a Sagnac filter with optimized parameters that achieve equal channel spacing of 0.8 nm. Given that the birefringence of this PCF is square to the operation wavelength, the channel spacing of the proposed filter changes by only 0.03 nm within a wavelength range from 1400 to 1650 nm; this is about one order of magnitude less than that constructed with conventional high-birefringent fibers.