High-Flexible Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic-Crystal Fibre

We propose a new type of high flexible single-polarization single-mode (SPSM) photonic crystal fibre (PCF). Numerical analysis indicates that the SPSM PCF proposed guides only one polarization mode over a wavelength band broader than the conventional SPSM fibres. The position and the bandwidth of the single polarization mode region depend flexibly on the structure parameters such as the hole diameters d₁ and d₂ and the hole pitch Λ of the SPSM PCFs. A 200-nm SPSM region can be obtained for the SPSM PCF with Λ=2.55μm, d₁/Λ=0.3 and d₂/Λ=0.833 and the modal birefringence at the wavelength 1.31μm can reach 1.8×10^-3.