A novel twin-core photonic crystal fiber was proposed to reduce the complexity and cost of fiber Raman amplifiers.By means of a proper design,this fiber could acquire a higher and flatter Raman gain efficiency coefficient curve rR=gR/Aeff over a specified band of wavelength than a conventional fiber.A Raman amplifier was designed with this novel twin-core photonic crystal fiber to operate in C band from 1530 nm to 1565 nm.A remarkable improvement over a conventional fiber Raman amplifier was obtained.It was numerically demonstrated that when pumped with a single source,an average gain of 8.7 dB with a fluctuation of less than 0.9 dB is achievable.
Based on the full-vector finite element method,a novel structure of highly negative dispersion photonic crystal fiber with the central index dip in the low germanium doped core is proposed.The highly negative dispersion can be obtained at the wavelength of 1.55 μm by adjusting the pitch,the air-hole diameter in the third ring,the germanium doped concentration and the influence of central index dip.
A novel asymmetrical twin-core photonic crystal fiber was proposed, whose effective overlap core area Aeff can be designed to synchronize the variation of Raman gain coefficient with respect to frequency. This fiber possesses a higher and flatter Raman gain efficiency coefficient curve rR=gR/Aeff over a specified band of wavelength than a conventional fiber. Therefore, it is a good candidate of gain me- dium for a flat, broad gain band fiber Raman amplifier. It was numerically demonstrated that for the Raman gain efficiency rR, relative fluctuations of less than 2.2% and 5.7% are achievable in the C (1530―1565 nm) band and L (1565―1625 nm) band, respectively.
