[Ceramic Transactions Series] Advances in Nanomaterials and Nanostructures (Lu/Advances) || Finite Element Modeling of Sapphire Photonic Crystal Fibers

✍ Scribed by Lu, Kathy; Manjooran, Navin; Radovic, Miladin; Medvedovski, Eugene; Olevsky, Eugene A.; Li, Chris; Singh, Gurpreet; Chopra, Nitin; Pickrell, Gary

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 928 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1118060024
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118144602.ch10

✦ Synopsis

This paper presents the finite element modeling of a unique sapphire photonic crystal fiber structure. The structure consists of six holes symmetrically arranged within the outer single crystal sapphire layer surrounding the solid single crystal sapphire core. The single crystal sapphire fibers produced were approximately 200μηι in diameter with hole sizes in the range of ΙΟμηι. This represents the first time that a photonic crystal fiber has been fabricated and modeled in single crystal sapphire. The modeling work focuses on the optimization and modal analysis of this fiber using Comsol Multiphysics 4.0a.