Design of a novel multi channel photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitter.

A kind of multi channel dual-core photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitter is designed. We analyze the effects of the lattice parameters and the thickness of gold layer on the beam splitting by the finite element method. Numerical results show that the thickness of metal layer and the size of the air holes near the fiber cores are closely linked with the nature of the polarization beam splitter. We also obtain that extinction ratio can reach −73.87 dB at 1 . 55 μ m wavelength and at 1 . 41 μ m, 1 . 65 μ m extinction ratio can reach 30.8978 dB and 31.1741 dB, respectively. The comparison of the effect on the characteristic of the photonic crystal fiber with coating no gold is also taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]