Modeling large air fraction holey optical fibers

System Applications of Holey Fibers

The wavelength-scale features in holey fibers lead to novel properties including endlessly single-mode guidance, high optical nonlinearity. The current HF technology for a wide range of device applications in optical communication systems is reviewed. Recent progress in the design and fabrication of holey fiber (HF) has resulted in widespread interest in the use of such technology for a variety...

Optical birefringence and polarization dependent loss of square- and rectangular-lattice holey fibers with elliptical air holes: numerical analysis.

Polarization dependent leakage loss as well as optical birefringence for the fundamental mode in square- and rectangular-lattice holey fibers with elliptical air holes are studied numerically based on the full-vector finite element method for the first time. It is shown that high birefringence in the order of 10-2 and large polarization dependent loss required for single-polarization single-mod...

Holey Fibers for Low Bending Loss

Recently, broadband-access network has spread out rapidly, and Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) has showed a stable growth. Nevertheless, for the prevalence of additional FTTH, the so-called 'last one mile problem', which entails a huge cost for constructing optical fiber networks to end-users, has to be solved. To this end, it is necessary to improve economical efficiency of the products for network a...

Arc-fusion Splicing Techniques for Holey Fibers

Recently, holey fibers (HFs) have attracted a lot of attention since the fibers can have properties that cannot be realized by traditional fibers with a corecladding structure 1). Applying HF to practical use requires the improvement of splice technique between HFs and between HF and a conventional single-mode fiber (C-SMF) in addition to the improvement in designing, manufacturing and measurem...

Effects of Core and Cladding on Optical Guidance Properties of Holey Fibers