Nanofibers with Bragg gratings from equidistant holes

TL;DR

This paper analyzes nanofibers with equidistant hole-based Bragg gratings, calculating their optical properties and how they depend on structural parameters and light polarization, providing insights for nanophotonic device design.

Contribution

It offers analytical and numerical methods to evaluate reflection and transmission in nanofiber gratings with variable parameters and polarization dependence.

Findings

Reflection and transmission vary with hole number, size, and period.

Polarization orientation affects grating optical properties.

Non-cylindrical symmetry causes polarization dependence.

Abstract

We study nanofibers with Bragg gratings from equidistant holes. We calculate analytically and numerically the reflection and transmission coefficients for a single grating and also for a cavity formed by two gratings. We show that the reflection and transmission coefficients of the gratings substantially depend on the number of holes, the hole length, the hole depth, the grating period, and the light wavelength. We find that the reflection and transmission coefficients of the gratings depend on the orientation of the polarization vector of light with respect to the holes. Such a dependence is a result of the fact that the cross section of the gratings is not cylindrically symmetric.