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In an optical fiber communication system, vortex beams have aroused great interest in the last several decades. Vortex beams possess many intriguing properties. For example, they have the ability to carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) which is mutually orthogonal. The OAM is a fundamental physical quantity of light which can be used as information carriers for transmission channel of optical fiber. Combined with the existing multiplexing techniques such as wavelength division multiplexing technique, advanced multilevel amplitude modulation formats, etc., the vortex beams provide an alternative to the increase of the transmission capacity and spectral efficiency of the optical fiber transmission system. Recently, long-length transmission of vortex-beam in optical fiber has been realized and there have also occurred some new designs of optical fiber on vortex beams, such as air-core ring shaped fiber, graded index vortex fiber, multi-ring fiber, and supermode fiber. Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is flexible in design. Therefore, it is easy to regulate the transmission performance of PCF by adjusting the radius and the pitch of the air holes and so on. In this paper, we propose a newly designed sixfold photonic quasi-crystal fiber (SPQCF) to transmit vortex beams stably. Transmission characteristics of this newly designed fiber are simulated and calculated by using COMSOL multiphysics software. When the wavelength of the incident light is 1550 nm, the effective index difference between the vortex modes in a group is more than 10–4 which is large enough to preclude the LP modes from being formed, and to transmit 7 vector modes (10 OAM modes). Changing the radius and pitch of the air holes, we can regulate the dispersion characteristic and confinement loss of the SPQCF flexibly. At 1550 nm, the confinement loss of the SPQCF maintains 10–8−10–7 which is low enough to confine the vortex beams in the fiber core. When the incident light wavelength of HE21 ranges from 1500 nm to 1800 nm (r0 = 1.9 μm), the dispersion coefficient of the SPQCF is between 63.51−65.42 ps·nm–1·km–1 which tends to be flat. By changing r0, the flat trend is adjusted to different wavelength range. This dispersion characteristic possesses great potential for the transmission of optical solitons. The effective mode area (HE21) is about 40 μm2 and the nonlinear coefficient (HE21) is maintained on the order of 10–3 between 1500−1600 nm. These features suppress the generation of nonlinear effect in the fiber and benefit the transmission of vortex beams. The stable transmission distance is longer than 1 km. In summary, we design a new type of PCF featuring quasi-crystal structure which has a ring shaped fiber core and supports the transmission of vortex beams stably.
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Keywords:
- photonic quasi-crystal fiber /
- vortex beams /
- dispersion /
- confinement loss
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图 1 六重准晶涡旋光光子晶体光纤 (a)光纤端面图; (b)折射率分布图
Figure 1. The sixfold photonic quasi-crystal fiber: (a) Cross-section of SPQCF; (b) index profile of SPQCF.
图 2 光子晶体光纤中涡旋光强度分布以及偏振分布
Figure 2. Intensity and polarization of vortex beams in SPQCF.
图 3 (a)模式有效折射率(
${n_{{\rm{eff}}}}$ ); (b)模式间有效折射率差($\Delta {n_{{\rm{eff}}}}$ )随波长的变化曲线Figure 3. (a) Effective refractive indices; (b) effective index difference as a function of wavelength for vector modes in SPQCF.
图 4 HE21模的限制性损耗随波长的变化(不同中心空气孔半径), 插图为1500—1600 nm波段内HE21模的限制性损耗
Figure 4. Confinement loss as a function of wavelength for HE21 mode with different r0, the inset shows the loss between 1500−1600 nm.
图 5
${\rm{H}}{{\rm{E}}_{21}}$ 模色散系数随波长的变化(不同中心空气孔半径), 插图为${r_0}$ 对涡旋光平坦趋势的影响Figure 5. Dispersion as a function of wavelength for
${\rm{H}}{{\rm{E}}_{21}}$ with different${r_0}$ , the inset shows the flat trend with di-fferent${r_0}$ 
图 6 (a) HE21模的模场面积; (b) HE21模的非线性系数随波长的变化 (不同中心空气孔半径); (a), (b) 的插图分别为 波段内的模场面积和非线性系数
Figure 6. (a) Effective mode area of HE21, (b) nonlinear coefficient as a function of wavelength for HE21 mode with different r0, the inset shows the (a) effective modes area and (b) nonlinear coefficient between 1500−1600 nm.
图 7 光纤中不同本征模的
${L_{10\;{\rm{ps}}}}$ 随波长的变化Figure 7.
${L_{10\;{\rm{ps}}}}$ as a function of wavelength for vortex modes in SPQCF. -
[1] Ramachandran S, Kristensen P 2013 Nanophotonics 2 455
[2] Curtis J E, Grier D G 2003 Opt. Lett. 28 872
Google Scholar
[3] Tabosa J W R, Petrov D V 1999 Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 4967
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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[27] Jin C, Meng X, Cheng B, Li Z, Zhang D 2001 Phys. Rev. B 63 195107
Google Scholar
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