Design of the polarization filter based on photonic crystal fiber with Au-coated air holes

  • Haiyang Wang
  • Xin Yan
  • Shuguang Li
  • Guowen An
  • Xuenan Zhang
  • Zhenyu Yuan
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Abstract

The scheme of polarization filter based on photonic crystal fiber with Au-coated air holes is proposed by using the finite element method. The air holes of the PCF are arranged in hexagonal lattice. The properties of the filter can be optimized by changing the parameters of air holes and the thickness of gold layer. Numerical simulation results show that the resonance strength of y-polarization can be up to \(823.7\,\hbox {dB\,cm}^{-1}\) which is stronger than that of x-polarization at the communication wavelength of \(1.55\,\upmu \hbox {m}\).

Keywords

Photonic crystal fiber Surface plasmon Polarization filter Resonance strength 
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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province, China (2014020020), National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61574143 and 51607029, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grants Nos.N130404001, N150403003 and N150404003, and the Project-sponsored by SRF for ROCS, SEM(47-6).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Haiyang Wang
    • 1
  • Xin Yan
    • 1
  • Shuguang Li
    • 1
  • Guowen An
    • 1
  • Xuenan Zhang
    • 1
  • Zhenyu Yuan
    • 1
  1. 1.College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern UniversityShenyangChina

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