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Fig. 1: Proposed structure of circular PCF with 5 ring of air Fig.3 is obtained by using Comsol 3.5a based on
holes,pitch =1.45 m and hole diameter d=0.725m. FEM. It shows the intensity and the shape of output light
in two dimension. From comsol we get the values for
Proposed PCF structures which is of circular shape real and imaginary part of neff for different wavelength
with 5 ring of air holes and 4 ring of air holes are shown readings.
in Fig.1 and Fig 2. D and denotes diameter and pitch
length for the structures. Background material used is III. EQUATIONS OF CHROMATIC DISPERSION,
silica. For the both the PCF value of diameter i.e. CONFINEMENT LOSS,EFFECTIVE AREA AND
d=0.725m and that of pitch length i.e. =1.45 m. NONLINEARITY
PML region which acts as boundary for this structure is Chromatic dispersion can be calculated easily from
of thickness 2m.The validation of the design is done by neff versus the wavelength value as shown in the below
using FEM with PML for accurate modelling of PCF. equation
(1)
(2)
m2 (3) 150
=4 ring
=5 ring
100
Dispersion(ps/(km.nm))
50
and effective area are inversely related and is given as Fig. 6: Dispersion variation with the wavelength for
circular PCF with 5 rings and 4 ring of air holes(
W-1km-1 (5) D/=0.5)
Fig 6 shows the wavelength dependence for
is the wavelength, and n2 is the nonlinear refractive chromatic dispersion of circular PCF having 5 and 4
index of the core region.n2 for silica is 2.8x 10 -20m2W-1 rings of air holes and having air filling fraction i.e
D/=0.5. From fig it is clear that dispersion curve in
IV. SIMULATED RESULTS circular PCF with 5 rings of air holes shows large
negative dispersion. Circular PCF with 5 ring air hole
By using Comsol multiphysics effective refractive offers large negative dispersion, which is of the value of
index of the fiber can be found out, which are useful for -150ps/(km.nm). Dispersion curve crosses zero at
studying the characteristics of PCF. 1500nm for circular PCF with 5 rings of air holes and
for circular PCF with 4 ring of air hole curve crosses
Fig. 5 shows the relation between neff vs. wavelength for
zero at 1400nm.
circular PCF having 4 and 5 rings of air holes. From
figure it is seen that neff value is greater for circular PCF
having 4 ring air holes than circular PCF with 5 ring air
-4
holes every wavelength. Maximum neff value for circular 10
PCF with 5 ring of air hole is 1.42 and that for 4 ring of -5
10 =4 ring
air hole is 1.44. =5 ring
Confinement loss(dB/m)
-6
1.45 10
=4 ring
1.44 =5 ring -7
10
1.43
-8
1.42
10
1.41 -9
10
neff
1.4
-10
10
1.39 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850
Wavelength(nm)
1.38
1.37
Fig. 7:Comparison of confinement loss for circular
PCF with five rings and 4 ring of air holes( D/=0.5)
1.36
800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
Wavelength(nm)
60
with 4 ring of air hole. Value of nonlinearity at 1550nm
50 for circular PCF with 5 rings of air hole is 38.38w-1km-1
40 and that for 4 rings of air hole circular PCF is 14.47w-
1
km-1. From the simulated result we can conclude that if
30
we increase the number of air hole rings we get large
20 nonlinearity. Further investigations in constructing
10
highly nonlinear fiber with the Circular PCF are
underway. So that circular PCF can be used for
0 supercontinium generation.
800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
wavelength(nm)
VI. REFERENCES
Fig. 9: Nonlinearity vs wavelength for circular PCF
with five rings and 4 rings of air holes( D/=0.5) 1) J.C. Knight, T.A. Birks, P.St.J. Russell, and D.M.
Atkin, "All-silica single-mode optical fiber with
Fig.9 shows the nonlinearity curve for circular
photonic crystal cladding," Opt. Lett., Vol. 21,
PCF having 5 and 4 rings of air holes. From equation 5
pp.1547-1549, Oct. 1996.
it is clear that as effective area increases nonlinearity
decreases .It can be seen from figure 9 that nonlinearity