Study of 1550 nm low loss single mode all-solid photonic bandgap fibers

All-solid photonic bandgap fiber shave attracted great attention of researchers due to their particular band gap and dispersion character as well as the merit of easily splicing the traditional optical fiber. We have fabricated the all-solid photonic bandgap fibers using the plasma chemical vapor deposition (PCVD) and a modified tack and draw technique, and the loss and dispersion characteristics were simulated by the finite-difference frequency-domain (FDFD) method. The fiber obtained by this method has a low-loss region at around 1550 nm and can be used as single-mode; its effective model field area and the dispersion of the fiber at 1550 nm are 191.81 mu m(2) and 16.418 ps/(km.nm), respectively. Combined with the experimental results, the fiber parameters are further optimized by simulation.