A broadband core shift polarization filter based on photonic crystal fiber with a big gold-coated air hole

Abstract

We propose a modified design for a Core shift photonic crystal fiber (PCF) polarization filter based on surface plasmon resonance. The Core shiftting is achieved by the air holes with different diameters around the gold-coated holes, which can separate the refractive index of the x-polarization and y-polarization second order surface plasmon polariton modes. The influences of structural parameters of the PCF on the filter characteristics are studied using the finite element method. Simulation results great changes have taken place in the results of numerical simulation by changing the thickness of the gold film and air hole diameter. We obtain a resonance wavelength with 1550 nm. The y-polarization mode is supressed significantly with the loss of 58,456.7 dB/m. With the length of the fiber is 300 μm, a extinction ratio is higher than 20 dB and a bandwidth achieve to 450 nm at the communication wavelength can be got. All these properties we achieved in the core shift PCF are important properties of PCF in broadband polarization filter in application. Our design can offer some guidance to the production of the polarization filter.