Comparison of the propagation properties among polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fibers with different air-holes configurations

摘要

In this paper, several triangular-lattice highly birefringent PCFs are analyzed on the base of the full vector model. Several properties of them, such as the PCF's modal field, the birefringence and the dispersion, are simulated by the supercell lattice method. Moreover, a comparison is made among them to study the impact of air-holes configuration of PCFs on their propagation properties. The simulation results show that air-holes at different position have different impact on the propagation properties of PCFs.