Analysis of nonlinear PCF for birefringence application using FDTD method

The effect of ellipticity on birefringence in a hexagonal photonic crystal fiber having elliptical air holes with Kerr nonlinearity is investigated, with and without defect using finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations. It is found that the birefringence increases with the increase of ellipticity. Further this analysis is extended to a double defect structure, where two adjacent air holes are omitted horizontally from the hexagonal structure. This double defect structure is found to have more birefringence than the structure without defect. It is raveled that birefringence due to no defect is more for lower value of ellipticity; however at higher value of ellipticity, birefringence due to double defect is more than the one that could be due to no defect.