Study on transmission characteristics of photonic crystal fiber gratings with periodic air hole deformation

The paper studies a kind of improved photonic crystal fiber gratings fabricated by CO 2 laser heating method. The effective refractive index of cladding induced by periodic air hole deformation is computed using multipole method, and the relationship between the effective refractive index and the collapse of air-holes is discussed, thereby the modulation expression of effective refractive index is obtained. The grating transmission characteristics are simulated. The results indicate that with the diameter of air-holes increasing from 3. 3 μm to 3. 7 μm, the resonance wavelength shows blue-shift, the resonance peak intensifies, and the bandwidth becomes narrow. As the collapse degree of cladding enhances, the resonance wavelength shows red-shift, the transmission increases, and the bandwidth tends to narrow. © 2011 Tianjin University of Technology and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.