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Highly birefringent slotted core photonic crystal fiber for terahertz waveguiding

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A novel porous core photonic crystal fiber (PC-PCF) is suggested and analyzed for terahertz waveguiding. The PC-PCF has a TOPAS background material with suspended asymmetric slotted core. Therefore, high birefringence of 0.09 is achieved with small material absorption losses of 0.016 cm−1 and 0.028 cm−1 for the quasi transverse electric (TE) and quasi transverse magnetic (TM) modes, respectively at f = 1.5 THz. Additionally low bending losses of 2.63 × 10–24 cm−1 and 8.16 × 10–36 cm−1 are obtained for the quasi TE and quasi TM modes, respectively at 1.0 cm bending radius and f = 1.5 THz. Further, the PC-PCF has an ultra-flat low dispersion of 0.54 \(\pm\) 0.08 ps/THz/cm and 0.94 \(\pm 0.1{ }\) ps/THz/cm for the quasi TE and TM modes, respectively within the frequency range of 0.8–1.2 THz. Therefore, the reported SSCPCF has a strong potential for usage in the Terahertz regime.

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    Aboulwafa M. Singer, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Ahmed M. Heikal & H. A. El-Mikati

  2. Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics Engineering Program, Zewail City of Science and Technology, October Gardens, 6th of October City, Giza, 12578, Egypt

    Aboulwafa M. Singer & Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed

  3. Centre for Photonics and Smart Materials, Zewail City of Science and Technology, October Gardens, 6th of October City, Giza, 12578, Egypt

    Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Ahmed M. Heikal & S. S. A. Obayya

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Singer, A.M., Hameed, M.F.O., Heikal, A.M. et al. Highly birefringent slotted core photonic crystal fiber for terahertz waveguiding. Opt Quant Electron 53, 9 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-020-02643-8

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