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In this paper, a novel broadband polarization-insensitive dual-core photonic crystal fiber with elliptical central hole is proposed and the influence of its structural parameters on coupling characteristic is investigated in detail by the full-vector finite element method. Through optimizing the fiber structural parameters, broadband and polarization-insensitive characteristics are achieved over the whole optical communication band from 1.225 m to 1.675 m. The variation of coupling ratio is stabilized at 50% 1%, and the coupling ratio difference between x polarization and y polarization is less than 0.5% overall the wavelength range. Due to its relatively independent of cores and elliptical central hole and suitable structural parameters, this fiber meets the application requirements, that is, easy to fabricate, easy to splice and low splice loss. This research is freed from the current coupler limit: narrow bandwidth, wavelength dependence, polarization-sensitive, difficulty of fabricating, thereby provides the theoretical basis for the study of the large capacity high speed all-optical networks and multi-wavelength tunable fiber laser.
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Keywords:
- dual-core photonic crystal fiber coupler /
- broadband characteristics /
- polarization-insensitive characteristics /
- fiber coupler
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[1] Birks T A, Knight J C, Russell P S J 1997 Opt. Lett. 22 961
[2] Bajarklev A, Broeng J, Bjarklev A S 2003 Photonic crystal fibers (Boston: Kulwer Academic Publishers)
[3] Ren G B, Wang Z, Lou S Q, Jian S S 2004 Acta Phys. Sin. 53 2600 (in Chinese) [任国斌, 王智, 娄淑琴, 简水生 2004 53 2600]
[4] Fu B, Li S Q, Yao Y Y, Zhang L, Zhang M Y, Liu S Y 2009 Acta Phys. Sin. 58 7708 (in Chinese) [付博, 李曙光, 姚艳艳, 张磊, 张美艳, 刘司英 2009 58 7708]
[5] Liu S, Li S G, Fu B, Zhou H S, Feng R P 2011 Acta Phys. Sin. 60 034217 (in Chinese) [刘硕, 李曙光, 付博, 周洪松, 冯荣普 2011 60 034217]
[6] Lagsgaard J, Band O, Bjarklev A 2004 Opt. Lett. 29 2473
[7] Varshney S K, Florous N J, Saitoh K 2006 Opt. Express 14 1982
[8] Florous N, Saitoh K, Koshiba M 2005 Opt. Express 13 7365
[9] Lou S Q, Tang Z W, Wang L W 2010 Applied Optics 50 2016
[10] Koshiba M, Gurvilinear T Y 2000 J. Lightwave Technol. 18 737
[11] Saitoh K, Sato Y, Koshiba M 2003 Opt. Express 11 3188
[12] Mothe N, Philippe D B 2009 Opt. Express 17 15778
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