Photonic Crystal Fibers with Optimized Dispersion for Telecommunication Systems

Abstract

The use of Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCF) is understood within their unique chromatic dispersion characteristics and nonlinear behavior, which is suitable for dispersion compensation or transmission of information without pulse spreading, leading to an intersymbol interference. Pulse spreading being the result of chromatic dispersion in optical fibers is considered as one of the critical issues in the design of optical fibers. Since the dispersion can result in worse system performance, it is necessary to prevent its occurrence or to compensate it. A systematic study of dispersion properties in PCFs is presented. The investigation includes a description of fiber chromatic dispersion dependence on structural and material parameters. Potential zero or anomalous dispersion in doped PCFs is achieved. An overview of current innovations on the studied problem is presented. Moreover, the new PCF with nearly zero ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion is introduced. It is shown from the numerical results that the dispersion of –0.025 ps/nm/km is available from the wavelength of 1200 nm to 1700 nm.