Polarization Rotator Based on Hybrid Plasmonic Photonic Crystal Fiber

Author

Lei Chen ; Weigang Zhang ; Quan Zhou ; Yongji Liu ; Sieg, Jonathan ; Liyu Zhang ; Li Wang ; Biao Wang ; Tieyi Yan

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Opt. Inf. Sci. & Technol., Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

Volume

26

Issue

22

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov.15, 15 2014

Firstpage

2291

Lastpage

2294

Abstract

A photonic crystal fiber polarization rotator (PR) is proposed based on a novel mechanism-mode interference by two hybrid waveguide modes, rather than adjusting optical property in the light-guided part. The proposed PR is achieved by introducing two defects and an ancillary Au nanowire into the background lattice, and under the optimized parameters, the PR can offer almost a 100% polarization conversion ratio in the wavelength of 1.55-μm band (~100-nm bandwidth), compact length ~162.7 μm, low modal insertion loss of ~1.2 dB, and high coupling efficiency over 0.92 for both TE and TM mode based on the numerical simulation result of the full-vector finite-element method.

Keywords

finite element analysis; gold; holey fibres; nanowires; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical rotation; photonic crystals; plasmonics; Au; PR; TE mode; TM mode; ancillary Au nanowire; background lattice; compact length; coupling efficiency; defects; full-vector finite-element method; hybrid plasmonic photonic crystal fiber; hybrid waveguide modes; light-guided part; mechanism-mode interference; modal insertion loss; numerical simulation; optical property; optimized parameters; photonic crystal fiber polarization rotator; polarization conversion ratio; wavelength 1.55 mum; Couplings; Insertion loss; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Photonic crystal fibers; Plasmons; Silicon compounds; Full-vector finite-element method; fiber sensor; hybrid plasmonics; photonic crystal fibers; polarization rotation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2352356

Filename

6899650