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Arshdeep Kaur ¹, Divya Prakash Gupta ¹, Shivinder Devra ¹, Karamdeep Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Electronics Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, IN

Abstract

Optical fiber is a thin hair-like fiber made of silica or plastic that is used to transmit data. It consists of a transparent core surrounded by a transparent cladding. There are many kinds of fiber like Step Index MMF, Graded Index MMF, Silica doped fiber, plastic fibers, Photonic Crystal fiber, Fluoride fibers etc. Among the various types of fibers used in communication system, Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCF) are widely used due its unique structure and tendency to work in two different modes i.e. Index Guided Mode and Band Gap Mode. PCFs are widely used in spectroscopy, meteorology, bio-medicine, imaging, telecommunication, industrial machinery etc. This paper is an overview of PCF modes and its various properties.

Keywords

Photonic Crystal Fiber, Photonic Band-Gap Fiber, Index Guided Fiber.

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