Design of a Novel Mid-Infrared Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Loss, High Nonlinearity, and Large Bandwidth

ABSTRACTA novel mid-infrared Ge20Sb15Se65 chalcogenide-based single-polarization single-mode (SPSM) photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with rectangular latticed circular air holes is proposed. The properties of SPSM bandwidth, confinement loss, and nonlinearity are analyzed in the 3 μm~8 μm mid-infrared region using the finite -difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The influences of different geometrical parameters on the properties of SPSM-PCF are analyzed. All numerical computational results reveal that for the optimized geometrical parameters, the proposed PCF can deliver a SPSM region of more than 2.3814 μm with high nonlinearity of 3,705 w−1 km−1. Therefore, such a SPSM-PCF will become an excellent candidate for mid-infrared photonic.