A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) polarization rotator, featuring a large bandwidth and low insertion loss (IL) and based on the mode hybridization principle, is proposed. By reducing the size of two air holes in the 45 deg inclined direction of the fiber core, a tilted lemon-shaped fiber core is constructed. This design breaks the vertical and horizontal symmetry in the cross section of the PCF, achieving efficient mode conversion between transverse magnetic and transverse electric modes. The characteristics are numerically analyzed using a full-vectorial finite-difference method with a perfectly matched layer boundary condition. The results show that, at a working wavelength of |
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Polarization
Silica
Optical engineering
Magnetism
Electric fields
Photonic crystal fibers
Cladding