Abstract

With the development of orbital angular momentum (OAM) photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for more efficient communication, fiber claddings are important to the performance. In this paper, the influence of ${\rm{Si}}{{\rm{O}}_2}$ and four new optical materials, which are amethyst, SSK2, SF11, and LaSF09, as cladding materials, on the OAM mode characteristics is studied based on a common PCF for OAM transmission. In addition, the effective index difference, dispersion, confinement loss, and other properties of OAM modes transmitted in the five materials are derived by the finite element method. After in-depth analysis, universal rules can be obtained as guidelines for optimization of PCF in the future for improving the efficiency of optical fiber communication. Through chart analysis, it can be concluded that when materials of high effective refractive indices are used as cladding materials for PCF, the dispersion, nonlinear coefficient, confinement loss, mode purity, and other properties are significantly improved. Lower dispersion and confinement loss are more conducive to long-distance communication transmission. The decrease in nonlinear coefficient represents a better effect in suppressing nonlinear effects, and the increase in numerical aperture and mode purity respectively improves the transmission efficiency and stability of OAM communication. These conclusions provide universal rules for high-quality communication in the future.

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