Performance analysis of photonic crystal fiber structure based on different highly nonlinear materials

Generally, fiber with a large mode area is desired for fiber laser and beam delivery applications. But the use of these fiber types is restricted to linear optical applications due to the lower value of the nonlinear coefficient. This paper investigates a single material-based photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with improved optical characteristics, applicable for linear and nonlinear optics. The light propagation in the structure is explored by applying finite element solver-based COMSOL multiphysics software. Five nonlinear optical materials are utilized as background material to get the optimized material with high performance PCF. Using this PCF, the improved optical properties of PCF such as moderate effective mode area of 115.85 mu m(2), chromatic dispersion, confinement loss of 10(-6) dB/m, the nonlinear coefficient of 543W(-1)Km(-1), splicing loss of 2.013 dB, and numerical aperture are numerically analyzed. This single-mode PCF also shows the low bending loss for the bending radius of 7 mm. The amended PCF structure is found to be suitable for high-power fiber laser, supercontinuum generation, wavelength conversion, and slow-light generation.