Effect of ethanol infiltration on the zero dispersion wavelength of solid core photonic crystal fiber

In this paper, a hexagonal structure of ethanol filled solid core photonic crystal fiber having dispersion shifted properties is presented. The guiding properties, like effective mode area and dispersion, of the ethanol filled photonic crystal fiber are studied by using the full vectorial finite element method. The numerical simulation results show that the selectively filling of the ethanol in the cladding holes of photonic crystal fiber shifts the zero dispersion wavelength from near infrared region (0.98 μm) to mid infrared region (1.55 μm). This kind of photonic crystal fiber structure is very useful for dispersion compensating tool, sensing applications, fiber laser devices and non-linear applications like supercontinuum generation.