A design of novel photonic crystal fiber with low and flattened dispersion for supporting 84 orbital angular momentum modes

Lijuan Zhao,Haiying Zhao,Zhiniu Xu,Ruoyu Liang

Table 1. Comparison of the proposed PCF with existing PCFs about some of the crucial properties.

References Operating band Supported OAM modes OAM purity Lowest dispersion variation Lowest confinement loss Lowest nonlinearity coefficient ISO nm — — ps·km−1·nm−1 dB m−1 W−1·km−1 dB [16] 600–2500 56 >89% 36.9 1.74 × 10−11 0.5 — [21] 1350–1950 14 — 4.4 5.08 × 10−3 2.78 — [23] 1400–1700 56 >80% — 10−8 — 20–112 [25] 800–2000 38 >85% 4.75 6.87 × 10−10 1.04 — [41] 1250–2000 14 — 46.38 10−12 2.5 — [46] 1520–1580 30 — 1.88 10−12 1.92 15–86 [47] 1000–2500 80 — — 10−6 1.26 × 105 — [48] 1000–2000 38 — 0.916 1.534 × 10−9 0.997 — Proposed 1000–1600 84 >91.7% 0.7 5 × 10−13 0.9 67–145