Optical properties of photonic crystal fibers

Abstract

We present a brief study of the photonic crystal fibers and recent developments and modifications presented to them for betterment of the optical parameters. The properties birefringence, nonlinearity, confinement loss, and chromatic dispersion are discussed, and the fiber structures of the fiber designed from the past few years have been studied. The PCFs can be seen as the future of a number of optical applications owing to its low chromatic dispersion, low confinement loss, high birefringence, and nonlinearity, and, the best of all, its flexibility to modify its structural aspects to manipulate these properties as desired.