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Systematic design of highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers

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This article systematically designs and theoretically investigates a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber (HB-PCF) for reducing the effect of polarization mode dispersion in high-speed optical communication system. To achieve a high modal birefringence in the proposed HB-PCF, four types of HB-PCF were designed by adding some birefringence-enhancing factors step by step in sequence. Ultimately, as per the simulation results, in the condition of single-mode operation, the numeric values of modal birefringence and confinement loss of the proposed HB-PCF is about 21.85 × 10− 3 and 0.47 dB/km at the habitual wavelength λ = 1.55 µm of optical-fiber communications.

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The author is thankful for the financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC, under Grant No. of MOST 105-2221-E-239-014.

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Hsu, JM. Systematic design of highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers. Appl. Phys. B 123, 73 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6660-8

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