Large Dispersion and High Nonlinearity in Silicon Nanowire Embedded Photonic Crystal Fiber

E. Gunasundari*, K. Senthilnathan, S. Sivabalan, Abdosllam M. Abobaker, P. Ramesh Babu, Kaliyaperumal Nakkeeran

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Abstract

We design a photonic silicon nanowire embedded microstructured optical fiber which is a special class of waveguide whose core diameter is of subwavelength or nanometer size with the air holes in the cladding. We study the optical waveguiding properties, namely, waveguide dispersions and effective nonlinearity by varying the core diameter. The results reveal that the air-clad silicon subwavelength nanowire exhibits several interesting properties such as a large normal dispersion (82385 ps(2)/km) for 300 nm core diameter and a large anomalous dispersion (-6817.3 ps(2)/km) for 500 nm core diameter at 1.95 mu m wavelength. The structure provides a large nonlinearity (3648 1/Wm) at 0.450 mu m wavelength for 300 nm core diameter. These enhanced optical properties might find suitable for various nonlinear applications that include the generation of fewcycle pulses, supercontinuum generation and optical processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE)
PublisherIEEE Explore
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781479932368
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventInternational Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE) - Vellore, India
Duration: 9 Jan 201411 Jan 2014

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)2378-2668

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE)
Country/TerritoryIndia
Period9/01/1411/01/14

Keywords

  • Silicon nanowire embedded photonic crystal fiber
  • group velocity dispersion and nonlinearity
  • subwavelength-diameter silica
  • on-insulator
  • wave-guides

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