Small-core photonic crystal fibers with weakly disordered air-hole claddings
arXiv:physics/0311106 · doi:10.1088/1464-4258/6/2/011
Abstract
Motivated by recent experimental work by Folkenberg et al. we consider the effect of weak disorder in the air-hole lattice of small-core photonic crystal fibers. We find that the broken symmetry leads to higher-order modes which have generic intensity distributions resembling those found in standard fibers with elliptical cores. This explains why recently reported experimental higher-order mode profiles appear very different from those calculated numerically for ideal photonic crystal fibers with inversion and six-fold rotational symmetry. The splitting of the four higher-order modes into two groups fully correlates with the observation that these modes have different cut-offs.
6 pages including 4 figures. To appear in J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt