In this work, a steering
shaped photonic crystal fiber (S-PCF) has been designed and numerically
investigated over a large wavelength spectrum from 1.00 µm to 2.00 µm.
The background material of the S-PCF is pure silica and core region is
injected with Silicon nano crystal (Si-nc). By employing the full vector
finite element method (FV-FEM) the modal parameters like birefringence,
power fraction, effective mode area and nonlinearity of the suggested
S-PCF have been scrutinized. Moreover, geometric parameters of the S-PCF
have been also tuned in a brute force manner. Numerical result provides
that it offers birefringence of 1.1×10
−3
, power fraction of 68%, and nonlinearity of 6.45×10
4
W
−1
km
−1
at the operating wavelength of λ = 1.55 µm for the ellipticity e =
0.39. Now it can be realized that the proposed S-PCF is a prominent
candidate for nonlinear applications and polarization maintaining fiber.