PHOTONIC CRYSTALS: MODAL THEORY OF PC FIBERS AND NUMERICAL APPLICATION

We describe a multipole theory of photonic crystal or microstructured optical fibers (MOF). We present general results obtained with this method concerning practical aspects of MOFs, such as dispersion, losses and number of guided modes. This article is intended to introduce the study of MOFs with the multipole method and therefore concentrates on a simple presentation of the theory and on the most important results.