Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) are the specialized optical waveguides that led to many
interesting applications ranging from nonlinear optical signal processing to high-power fiber …

Photonic crystal fibers are a new class of optical fibers. Their artificial crystal-like
microstructure results in a number of unusual properties. They can guide light not only …

Recent progress on numerical modeling methods for photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) such as
the effective index approach, basis-function expansion approach, and numerical approach …

A micro structure folded cladding porous shaped with circular air hole photonic crystal fiber
(FP-PCF) is proposed and numerically investigated in a broader wavelength range from 1.4 …

A D-shaped photonic crystal fiber (D-PCF) with square-lattice and nanoscale gold film is
proposed and analyzed by the finite element method. Based on the strong surface plasmon …

An analysis of the con. nement losses in photonic crystal fibers due to the finite numbers of
air holes is performed by means of the finite element method. The high flexibility of the …

We report the results of our recent investigation on the properties of a highly birefringent
photonic crystal fiber including modal birefringence, mode field diameter, divergence angle …

In this paper the guiding properties of photonic crystal fibers with a square lattice of air-holes
in a silica matrix have been studied for the first time. The dispersion curves of fibers with …

A novel photonic crystal fibre (PCF) with a low confinement loss and nearly zero ultra-flatted
chromatic dispersion and negative chromatic dispersion at a wide telecommunication …

We design and demonstrate a miniature all-fiber Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometric sensor
based on hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber where the strain is gauged by measuring the …