Mode Exciting Properties of Photonic Crystal Fibres with the Optical Field Incident from a Single Mode Fibre

We numerically investigate the mode exciting properties of photonic crystal fibres by using the beam propagation method when the optical field is input from a traditional single mode fibre. The results show that both the excited mode spectrum and the coupling-efficiency of each excited mode depend on the normalized pitch Ł/λ and the normalized hole-size Ł/λ. Furthermore, we obtain the boundary profile of the optimizing coupling-efficiency for the excited fundamental mode: the boundary (Ł/λ)* is linear to the boundary ( d /Ł)*. All of these will pave the way for smoothing applications of photonic-crystal fibres, such as splicing and designing photonic-crystal-fibre functional devices.