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Long wavelength behavior of the fundamental mode in microstructured optical fibers

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Abstract

Using a novel computational method, the fundamental mode in index-guided microstructured optical fibers with genuinely infinite cladding is studied. It is shown that this mode has no cut-off, although its area grows rapidly when the wavelength crosses a transition region. The results are compared with those for w-fibers, for which qualitatively similar results are obtained.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Parameter U versus V for (a) MOF with parameters given in the text. Solid curve refers to a structure with infinite cladding. The three closed circles correspond to wavelengths λ=0.25Λ, 0.15Λ and 0.05Λ from left to right. The open circles correspond to the wavelengths indicated. The long (short)-dashed curve is the equivalent result for a MOF with a finite cross section with five (three) rings of holes. Dotted curve, included for convenience, gives U=V. (b) Same as (a) but for a conventional geometry with parameters given in the text. The points indicated by the circles in (a) have no equivalent here.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. Axial Poynting vector for a MOF with finite cross section with three rings of holes (top row), and an infinite cross section (bottom row), for V=1.55 (λ/Λ=0.133), V=1.23 (λ/Λ=0.50), V=0.79 (λ/Λ=1.1), and V=0.58 (λ/Λ=1.6) for the first, second, third and fourth columns, respectively. The small circles indicate the air holes.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 3. Axial Poynting vector for a w-fiber (top row), and a step-index fiber with infinite cladding (bottom row), for V=1.55,1.23,0.79,0.58 for the first, second, third and fourth column, respectively. The cladding’s inner and outer edges are indicated by white circles.

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V 2 π λ ρ n co 2 n cl 2 = 2 π λ Λ 3 n b 2 n fsm 2 ,
U 2 π λ ρ n co 2 n eff 2 = 2 π λ Λ 3 n b 2 n eff 2 ,
( K 0 ( k r 1 2 ) K 0 ( k ρ ) ) 2 = 0.5 ,
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