NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLASS
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS INFILTRATED WITH ALCOHOLIC LIQUIDS
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Communications in Physics
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Publishing year: 2020
The characteristics of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with various air hole diameters
infiltrated with alcoholic liquids such as ethanol, methanol, propanol and butanol are numerically
investigated. Based on the numerical results, we have analyzed and compared in detail the characteristics
of these fibers including effective refractive index, effective mode area, dispersion and
confinement loss for two sets of parameters fd;Lg = f1 mm;5 mmg and f1.42 mm, 3.26 mmg,
with d the air hole diameter and L the lattice constant, respectively. The PCF infiltrated with
ethanol and butanol shows better near zero flattened dispersion property at 1.42 mm and 1 mm
wavelength, respectively. The values of effective refractive index, effective mode area, dispersion
and confinement loss decrease in an orderly manner from butanol, propanol, ethanol to methanol
and all the alcoholic liquid’s curves of dispersion are flat and are very close to each other and
near the zero dispersion curve. The proposed PCF shows a promising prospect in technology applications
such as supercontinuum generation.