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A new technique to optimize the properties of photonic crystal fibers supporting transmission of multiple orbital angular momentum modes

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Spurred by the continuous development of orbital angular momentum (OAM) optical fiber communication technology, many photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with excellent properties have been proposed. However, design and optimization of the performance of PCFs are usually complex. In this paper, a new optimization method is described and demonstrated on a LaSF09 high refractive index ring with a certain thickness inlaid in the central pore. The effective index difference, dispersion, effective mode area, nonlinear coefficient, numerical aperture (NA), OAM purity, walk-off length, and confinement loss at 1.55 μm are analyzed. A conventional photonic crystal fiber (PCF) that can transmit OAM modes is used to verify the method and our results reveal the validity and large potential of the method pertaining to the design and optimization of PCFs.

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The work was jointly supported by Postdoctoral Scientific Research Development Fund of Heilongjiang Province [LBH-Q20081], Local Universities Reformation and Development Personnel Training Supporting Project from Central Authorities [140119001], and City University of Hong Kong Strategic Research Grant (SRG) [Grant Number 7005505] and Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2018A01006].

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  1. School of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, 163318, People’s Republic of China

    Haihao Fu, Chao Liu, Zao Yi, Xinping Song, Xianli Li, Yanshu Zeng, Jianxin Wang, Jingwei Lv & Lin Yang

  2. Joint Laboratory for Extreme Conditions Matter Properties, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, People’s Republic of China

    Zao Yi

  3. Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Paul K. Chu

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Fu, H., Liu, C., Yi, Z. et al. A new technique to optimize the properties of photonic crystal fibers supporting transmission of multiple orbital angular momentum modes. J Opt 52, 307–316 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12596-022-00876-2

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