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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Summary
The additivity assumption for material and waveguide dispersion in single-mode fibers is inaccurate. However, this inaccuracy has minimal impact on the total dispersion of the LP(01) mode due to waveguide dispersion
Area of Science:
- Optical Engineering
- Photonics
- Fiber Optics
Background:
- Dispersion in single-mode fibers is crucial for signal integrity.
- Theoretical models often assume additive contributions from material and waveguide dispersion.
- The LP(01) (HE(11)) mode is the primary mode in single-mode fibers.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the validity of the additive dispersion assumption in single-mode fibers.
- To accurately compute the dispersion of the LP(01) mode by considering material dispersion.
- To quantify the deviation from additivity and its impact on total dispersion.
Main Methods:
- Utilized Gloge's LP-mode approximation to solve the eigenvalue equation.
- Incorporated the dispersive properties of core and cladding materials.
- Employed numerical differentiation to compute the LP(01) mode dispersion.
- Compared the calculated total dispersion with the sum of individual material and waveguide dispersions.
Main Results:
- Significant percentage deviations were found between the sum of material and waveguide dispersion and the calculated total dispersion.
- The assumption of additivity for material and waveguide dispersion was found to be not entirely correct.
- Despite large percentage errors in waveguide dispersion, its small contribution minimized the impact on overall LP(01) mode dispersion.
Conclusions:
- The additivity of material and waveguide dispersion in single-mode fibers is an approximation that does not hold precisely.
- The influence of this inaccuracy on the total dispersion of the LP(01) mode is negligible due to the dominance of material dispersion.
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