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Dispersion flattened extremely high-birefringent kagome lattice elliptic core photonic crystal fiber in THz regime

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A highly birefringent elliptic porous-core photonic crystal fiber with kagome lattice cladding has been presented for terahertz (THz) wave transmission. The slotted airholes inside the elliptic core effectively disrupt the symmetry of the porous-core which offers extremely high modal birefringence whereas the kagome cladding structure results in significantly low effective material loss (EML). The birefringence of the proposed structure is \(9.73\times 10^{-2}\) and the EML is \(0.056\,{\hbox {cm}}^{-1}\) for y-polarized mode at an operating frequency of 1 THz. The suggested structure also provides very flat dispersion over a bandwidth of 300 GHz. It is highly expected that this elliptic core waveguide would be remarkably useful in numerous polarization maintaining THz applications.

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0250, USA

    Md. Shariful Islam

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    Mohammad Faisal

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Rajshahi, 6204, Bangladesh

    S. M. Abdur Razzak

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Islam, M.S., Faisal, M. & Razzak, S.M.A. Dispersion flattened extremely high-birefringent kagome lattice elliptic core photonic crystal fiber in THz regime. Opt Quant Electron 51, 35 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-019-1744-9

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