Abstract

Dispersion causes optical pulses broadening and must be compensated for in long-distance high-speed optical data transmission systems. We investigate optical properties of micro structured fiber with 5-fold symmetric quasicrystal lattice of air-holes in a silica matrix for the first time. Dual-Concentric core Photonic Quasicrystal Fiber (DC-PQF) lattices with varying hole diameters were investigated and curves for the effective index, dispersion parameter and confinement losses were calculated by finite element method. For dispersion compensation purpose, we have proposed a novel 5-fold PQF with a high negative dispersion values ≈ 16,000 ps/(nm-km) could be reached for the wavelength around 1310 nm.

Keywords:

Dispersion Compensation Fiber (DCF), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), five-fold symmetry, Photonic Quasi-crystal Fiber (PQF),

References

Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests.

Open Access Policy

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

Copyright

The authors have no competing interests.