Simplified Loss Estimation of Splice to Photonic Crystal Fiber using New Model

For a range of fiber parameters and wavelengths, the splice losses between photonic crystal fiber and a single mode fiber are calculated using our simplified and effective model of photonic crystal fiber following a recently developed elaborate method. Again, since the transverse offset and angular mismatch are the serious factors which contribute crucially to splice losses between two optical fibers, these losses between the same couple of fibers are also studied, using our formulation. The concerned results are seen to match fairly excellently with rigorous ones and consistently in comparison with earlier empirical results. Moreover, our formulation can be developed from theoretical framework over entire optogeometrical parameters of photonic crystal fiber within single mode region instead of using deeply involved full vectorial methods. This user-friendly simple approach of computing splice loss should find wide use by experimentalists and system users. © 2016 by De Gruyter.