Applying optical design methods to the development of application specific photonic crystal fibres

Francis Berghmans; Thomas Geernaert; Marek Napierała; Tigran Baghdasaryan; Camille Sonnenfeld; Sanne Sulejmani; Tomasz Nasiłowski; Paweł Mergo; Tadeusz Martynkien; Wacław Urbańczyk; Elżbieta Bereś-Pawlik; Hugo Thienpont

doi:10.1117/12.999353

18 December 2012 Applying optical design methods to the development of application specific photonic crystal fibres

Francis Berghmans, Thomas Geernaert, Marek Napierała, Tigran Baghdasaryan, Camille Sonnenfeld, Sanne Sulejmani, Tomasz Nasiłowski, Paweł Mergo, Tadeusz Martynkien, Wacław Urbańczyk, Elżbieta Bereś-Pawlik, Hugo Thienpont

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Proceedings Volume 8550, Optical Systems Design 2012; 85500B (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999353
Event: SPIE Optical Systems Design, 2012, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Photonic Crystal Fibres (PCFs) are well known for allowing the implementation of specific waveguiding features that cannot be achieved with conventional optical fibres. This results from the design flexibility of the holey structure in the PCF cladding and/or core regions. Today PCFs have found applications for example in supercontinuum generation, optical sensing and fibre lasers. They are now also being combined with fibre Bragg gratings, more specifically in the fields of optical fibre sensing and all-fibre laser applications. In this contribution we discuss how we applied micro-optical design methods based on commercially available software such as MODE Solutions and FDTD Solutions from Lumerical Solutions, Inc. and COMSOL Multiphysics® combined with MATLAB® scripting and additional optimization methods to develop microstructured fibres for three different purposes, i.e. PCF structures that facilitate Bragg grating inscription, PCF structures that enable temperature insensitive pressure measurements and bendable PCFs with a very large mode area for high power short pulse fibre lasers. For the three cases we describe the fibre design methods and property simulations as well as the tolerance studies that take into account manufacturing imperfections as well as possible variations in material parameters.

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Francis Berghmans, Thomas Geernaert, Marek Napierała, Tigran Baghdasaryan, Camille Sonnenfeld, Sanne Sulejmani, Tomasz Nasiłowski, Paweł Mergo, Tadeusz Martynkien, Wacław Urbańczyk, Elżbieta Bereś-Pawlik, and Hugo Thienpont "Applying optical design methods to the development of application specific photonic crystal fibres", Proc. SPIE 8550, Optical Systems Design 2012, 85500B (18 December 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999353

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