Design and Characterization of an Ultra Low Loss, Dispersion-Flattened Slotted Photonic Crystal Fiber for Terahertz Application
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Mohammad Rakibul Islam
Abstract
A novel photonic crystal fiber (PCF) based on TOPAS, consisting only rectangular slots is presented and analyzed in this paper. The PCF promises not only an extremely low effective material loss (EML) but also a flattened dispersion over a broad frequency range. The modal characteristics of the proposed fiber have been thoroughly investigated using finite element method. The fiber confirms a low EML of 0.009 to 0.01 cm−1 in the frequency range of 0.77–1.05 THz and a flattened dispersion of 0.22±0.01 ps/THz/cm. Besides, some other significant characteristics like birefringence, single mode operation and confinement loss have also been inspected. The simplicity of the fiber makes it easily realizable using the existing fabrication technologies. Thus it is anticipated that the new fiber has the potential to ensure polarization preserving transmission of terahertz signals and to serve as an efficient medium in the terahertz frequency range.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Amplifiers
- Performance Analysis of Distributed Raman Amplifier Using Different Pumping Methods in DWDM Communication Systems
- Influence of Conventional Optical Amplifiers for 64×10 Gbps WDM System
- Devices
- Cross-Layer Optimization and Cascadability of Optical Switches in Fiber Optic Data Networks
- Arrayed Waveguide Grating and Re-Circulating Buffer Based Optical Packet Switch
- A Joint Multicast Optimization Approach for QoS Provisioning in Optical Label Switching (OLS) Networks
- Fibers
- Rigorous Eigenmode Derivations and Spectral Analysis for Step-Index Confocal Parabolic Optical Fibers
- Design and Characterization of an Ultra Low Loss, Dispersion-Flattened Slotted Photonic Crystal Fiber for Terahertz Application
- Analysis of Microstructured Photonic Crystal Fiber with Dual Core Suspension for the Enhanced Supercontinuum Generation
- Measurements
- Analysis of Optical Backbone Fiber and Trace Report of Break Fiber by Using Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
- Networks
- An Improved Hybrid WDM/TDM PON Model with Enhanced Performance Using Different Modulation Formats of WDM Transmitter
- Receiver
- Efficient Blind Adaptive CSE to Reduce Cyclic Prefix Length in Direct Detection Optical OFDM Systems
- Systems
- Novel Manchester-Based Multilevel Signaling for High-Speed Optical Communication Systems
- Analysis of Four Wave Mixing Effects in 16 ×10 Gb/S WDM Optical Communication System
- Design and Simulation of 1.28 Tbps Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex System Suitable for Long Haul Backbone
- Millimetre Waves Over Free Space Optics System for 5G Application
- 40 Gbps Laguerre-Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian Optical Mode Division Multiplexing for Radio over Fiber System
- Theory
- A Study of Different Forms of Dual Polarization – Quadrature Amplitude Modulation and its Performance Analysis in Terms of Q-Factor and Distance
