Open AccessEmpirical relations for simple design of photonic crystal fibers
Author(s) -
Kunimasa Saitoh,
Masanori Koshiba
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/opex.13.000267
Subject(s) - photonic crystal fiber , optics , finite element method , photonic crystal , computation , simple (philosophy) , fiber , optical fiber , materials science , computer science , physics , structural engineering , algorithm , engineering , philosophy , epistemology , composite material
In order to simply design a photonic crystal fiber (PCF), we provide numerically based empirical relations for V parameter and W parameter of PCFs only dependent on the two structural parameters - the air hole diameter and the hole pitch. We demonstrate the accuracy of these expressions by comparing the proposed empirical relations with the results of full-vector finite element method. Through the empirical relations we can easily evaluate the fundamental properties of PCFs without the need for numerical computations.