Investigation on chalcogenide and silica based photonic crystal fibers with circular and octagonal core

In this paper, a novel chalcogenide and silica photonic crystal fiber (PCF) structure is designed with circular air-holes located in the cladding and the various optical properties, namely, dispersion, nonlinearity and group velocity dispersion parameters are compared for two different core structures, namely, circular and octagonal. The objective is to obtain high nonlinearity with dispersion flattened PCF. The prime focus is to obtain high non-linear effects as it plays great role in speed and capacity of optical communications. The proposed chalcogenide octagonal and circular PCF exhibits a dispersion of +77.55 ps/(nm km) and +77.34 ps/(nm km), respectively, whereas, the nonlinearity is in the order of 4506 W−1 km−1 and 4498 W−1 km−1, respectively. Also, the silica octagonal and circular PCF exhibits a dispersion of +19.03 ps/(nm km) and +0.97 ps/(nm km) respectively, whereas the nonlinearity is in the order of 169.41 W−1 km−1 and 182.41 W−1 km−1 respectively.