Dispersion control in square lattice photonic crystal fiber using hollow ring defects

Abstract

We propose a new dispersion control scheme by introducing hollow ring defects having a central air hole and a GeO2-or F-doped silica ring with in a square lattice photonic crystal fiber. We confirmed the flexible dispersion controllability in the proposed structure in two aspects of dispersion managements: ultra-flattened near-zero dispersion in the 530nm-bandwidth over all communication bands and dispersion compensation in C, L, and U band with a high compensation ratio of 0.96 similar to 1.0 in reference to the standard single mode fiber. The proposed SLPCFs were also estimated to have an inherently low splice loss due to the index contrast between the doped-ring and silica that kept a good guidance even along with collapsed air holes, which cannot be achieved in conventional PCFs. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America