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Broadband Single-Polarization Photonic Crystal Fiber Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance for Polarization Filter

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A broadband single-polarization photonic crystal fiber polarized filter based on surface plasmon resonance is proposed based on finite element method. Numerical simulations show the confinement loss of y-PCM (y-polarized core mode) is much higher than that of x-PCM (x-polarized core mode) in the wavelength range 1.20–1.63 μm. The confinement loss of y-polarized mode is 45,240 and 10,200 dB/m at the communication wavelength 1.31 and 1.55 um, respectively, and the corresponding loss of x-polarized mode is just 90 and 80 dB/m. When the fiber length is 3 mm, the bandwidth of extinction ratio better than -20 dB is greater than 430 nm covering almost all the communication wavelength. To our best knowledge, the bandwidth is the widest. The impacts of structural parameters on the resonance characteristics are also discussed. The structure could be further optimized for better result.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61178026 and 61475134), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (Grant No. E2012203035).

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    Qiang Liu, Shuguang Li, Hui Li, Jianchen Zi, Wan Zhang, Zhenkai Fan, Guowen An & Yajie Bao

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Liu, Q., Li, S., Li, H. et al. Broadband Single-Polarization Photonic Crystal Fiber Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance for Polarization Filter. Plasmonics 10, 931–939 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-015-9882-9

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