Study of the theory of liquid photonic crystal Fiber for optical communication systems / Rasha Ali Hussein ; Supervised Wessam Eldin S. A. , Salah S. Obayya , Jala M. Elazab

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science - Department of Laser Applications in Engineering

The design of liquid crystal based tunable photonic devices and their applications in optical communications with an emphasis on all-fiber device configuration have been developed. The infiltration of liquid crystals into photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) provides a suitable common platform to design and fabricate simple and compact all-fiber tunable photonic devices which can be easily integrated with optical fiber networks. This dissertation presents the modal analysis results of a novel design of ultra high birefringence silica PCF infiltrated with a nematic liquid crystal (NLC-PCF). The full vectorial finite element method (FV-FEM) has been used to obtain the numerical results. The analyzed parameters are the effective index, birefringence, and the effective mode area for the two fundamental polarized modes. In addition, due to their different uses in communication systems, the performance and beam propagation analysis of novel design of polarization splitter based on the silica NLC-PCF is reported thoroughly. Moreover, the fabrication tolerance for the proposed design is investigated. Further, the usage of NLC-PCF as a soliton pulse compressor has been investigated. In addition, the numerical results reveal that the NLC-PCF offers ultra high birefringence of 0.191 at the operating wavelength of 1.55 om with NLC diameter of 3.4 om with low losses of the two polarized modes.

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