Bandgaps of the Chalcogenide Glass Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

• 来源期刊: 中国物理快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（11）
• 页码范围: 113-116
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/28/11/114204

摘要

Bandgaps of chalcogenide glass hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (GLS HC-PCFs) are analyzed by using the plane-wave expansion method.A mid-infrared laser can propagate in these low confinement loss fibers when the wavelength falls into the bandgaps.For enlarging the bandgap width,an improved GLS HC-PCF is put forward,the normalized frequency κA of the improved fiber is from 7.2 to 8.5 in its first bandgap.The improved GLS HC-PCF with pitch of 4.2μm can transmit the lights with wavelengths ranging from 3.1 μm to 3.7 μm.Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) can be classified into total internal reflection PCFs and photonic bandgap (PBG) PCFs[1] Solid core PCFs are one kind of the total internal reflection PCFs;hollow-core PCFs (HC-PCFs) are a kind of typical PBG fibers.The conception of HC-PCFs was first proposed by Russel in 1991.[2] Later,it was theoretically demonstrated by Birks et al.[3] in 1995.A bandgap photonic crystal fiber was mde by Knight et al.[4] for the first time in 1998.On the basis of these works,the first HC-PCF was designed and made by Cregan et al.[5] in 1999.