Hollow Core Fiber Design with Ultimate Low Confinement Loss and Dispersion

Abstract

Secure and uninterruptable data communication is one of the most important requirements in telecommunication sector. Research is being done in the field of telecommunication in order to provide secure data to customers by reducing dispersion and confinement losses within an optical fiber. Photonic crystal fiber is a new technology of optical fibers which has provided secure and managed data transfer with low dispersion properties and confinement loss. In this paper we studied Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers (HC-PCF) to reduce the dispersion and losses through the fibers. We presented different designs of HC-PCF and selected one design with reduced dispersion and confinement loss. The main purpose of this study was to develop a design that can be utilized in Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems (WDM). In WDM systems we can only use a fiber that has low material dispersion and low confinement loss. The wavelength range for a WDM system is from 1300nm to 1550nm. So, we studied HC-PCF designs and calculated the confinement loss and dispersion within this range.