Giant Nonlinear AlGaAs-Doped Glass Photonic Crystal Fibers for Efficient Soliton Generation at Femtojoule Energy

Abstract

In this paper, a unique semiconductor-doped glass photonic crystal fiber has been designed, which is suitable for soliton propagation at femto-Joule energy. The fiber promises to yield low and uniform anomalous dispersion profile and very large optical nonlinearities 25 211 W-1 km-1 at telecommunication wavelength, and, thus, facilitating soliton formation at ultralow energy. The observed magnitude of nonlinearity is the highest reported ever till date in AlGaAs-doped glass. The soliton dynamics has been investigated taking into account of higher order dispersions and nonlinearities. Propagating solitons breadth and experience large frequency shift, this decrease with the increase in the initial pulse width and increase with the increase in pulse energy. Temporal width of solitons oscillates, the frequency and amplitude of oscillations increase with the increase in the value of pulse energy.

Keywords

• Photonic crystal fiber
• dispersion
• effective optical nonlinearity
• soliton generation
• dispersive wave