Design of a photonic crystal fiber for dispersion compensation over telecommunication bands

This paper presents a microstructure optical fiber based on an hexagonal structure for dispersion compensation in a wideband transmission system. According to simulation, negative dispersion coefficient of − 562 ps/(nm.km) and relative dispersion slope (RDS) close to that of single mode fiber (SMF) of about 0.0036 nm
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is obtained at 1550 nm wavelength. Besides the proposed hexagonal microstructure optical fiber (H-MOF) offers high birefringence of 3.06×10
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. Due to having better optical properties, this proposed fiber can be effectively used in broadband dispersion compensation and sensing applications.