Design for a Single-Polarization Photonic Crystal Fiber Wavelength Splitter Based on Hybrid-Surface Plasmon Resonance

A novel single-polarization photonic crystal fiber wavelength splitter based on hybrid-surface plasmon resonance is proposed. A full-vector finite-element method is applied to analyze the guiding properties. Numerical simulations show that the proposed splitter, which is only several hundred microns in length, gives single polarization in the 1.31-μm and 1.55-μm bands. The loss of the unwanted polarized mode is 102.6 and 245.0 dB/cm in the two aforementioned communication windows, respectively, and the corresponding insertion loss is as low as 3.5 and 1.7 dB/cm, respectively. Moreover, the dependence of the bandwidth on the fiber length is given, and according to that function, the bandwidth can reach 40 nm (1.31-μm band) and 100 nm (1.55-μm band) when the fiber length is up to 1 mm. Additionally, the tolerances for a realistic fabrication are analyzed. In the last part, we discuss other methods to deal with an anticrossing phenomenon in detail.

[1]  J. Sieg,et al.  Passive polarization rotator based on silica photonic crystal fiber for 1.31-μm and 1.55-μm bands via adjusting the fiber length , 2014 .

[2]  S. Zhang 张,et al.  Characteristics of spectral-hole burning in Tm3+:YAG based on the perturbation theory , 2014 .

[3]  陈雷,et al.  Characteristics of spectral-hole burning in Tm3＋ ：YAG based on the perturbation theory , 2014 .

[4]  Susobhan Das,et al.  Triple-core collinear and noncollinear plasmonic photonic crystal fiber couplers. , 2013, Applied optics.

[5]  James S. Harris,et al.  Ultra-Compact and Low-Loss Polarization Rotator Based on Asymmetric Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide , 2013, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[6]  Mo Mojahedi,et al.  Experimental demonstration of an integrated hybrid plasmonic polarization rotator , 2013, CLEO: 2013.

[7]  Shuguang Li,et al.  Polarization filter characters of the gold-coated and the liquid filled photonic crystal fiber based on surface plasmon resonance. , 2013, Optics express.

[8]  Jianlin Zhao,et al.  Polarization-dependent coupling in gold-filled dual-core photonic crystal fibers. , 2013, Optics express.

[9]  P. Lalanne,et al.  Quasi-cylindrical wave contribution in experiments on extraordinary optical transmission , 2012, Nature.

[10]  Deming Liu,et al.  Coexistence of positive and negative refractive index sensitivity in the liquid-core photonic crystal fiber based plasmonic sensor. , 2012, Optics express.

[11]  Shuguang Li,et al.  Polarization splitting filter characteristics of Au-filled high-birefringence photonic crystal fiber , 2012 .

[12]  P St J Russell,et al.  Excitation of a nanowire "molecule" in gold-filled photonic crystal fiber. , 2012, Optics letters.

[13]  Hao Zhang,et al.  Orthogonal Single-Polarization Single-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber for Wavelength Splitting , 2012, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[14]  Weigang Zhang,et al.  Design of Broadband Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Fiber Based on Index-Matching Coupling , 2012, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[15]  L. Xia,et al.  A multi-core holey fiber based plasmonic sensor with large detection range and high linearity. , 2012, Optics express.

[16]  Weigang Zhang,et al.  Design of single-polarization wavelength splitter based on photonic crystal fiber. , 2011, Applied optics.

[17]  Y. Zhang,et al.  Microstructured fiber based plasmonic index sensor with optimized accuracy and calibration relation in large dynamic range , 2011 .

[18]  Mohamed Farhat O Hameed,et al.  Design of passive polarization rotator based on silica photonic crystal fiber. , 2011, Optics letters.

[19]  N. Sun,et al.  Analysis of optical waveguides with ultra-thin metal film based on the multidomain pseudospectral frequency-domain method. , 2011, Optics express.

[20]  Kunimasa Saitoh,et al.  Polarization characteristics of photonic crystal fibers selectively filled with metal wires into cladding air holes. , 2011, Optics express.

[21]  J. Aitchison,et al.  Propagation characteristics of hybrid modes supported by metal-low-high index waveguides and bends. , 2010, Optics express.

[22]  M. Schmidt,et al.  Long-range spiralling surface plasmon modes on metallic nanowires. , 2008, Optics express.

[23]  P. Lalanne,et al.  Microscopic theory of the extraordinary optical transmission , 2008, Nature.

[24]  Jian Lu,et al.  Dependence of leaky mode coupling on loss in photonic crystal fiber with hybrid cladding. , 2008, Optics express.

[25]  Hideaki Tanaka,et al.  Long-haul transmission of16×52.5 Gbits/s polarization-division- multiplexed OFDM enabled by MIMO processing (Invited) , 2008 .

[26]  Marc Lamy de la Chapelle,et al.  Improved analytical fit of gold dispersion: Application to the modeling of extinction spectra with a finite-difference time-domain method , 2005 .

[27]  Hiroshi Kato,et al.  40-GHz electro-optic polarization modulator for fiber optic communications systems , 2004, Photonics North.

[28]  Gerald S. Buller,et al.  Tunable electro-optic polarization modulator for quantum key distribution applications , 2004 .

[29]  W. Barnes,et al.  Surface plasmon subwavelength optics , 2003, Nature.

[30]  J. Rocca,et al.  Polarization switching in vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers observed at constant active region temperature , 1997, 1997 55th Annual Device Research Conference Digest.

[31]  Govind P. Agrawal,et al.  Nonlinear Fiber Optics , 1989 .