Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10409485 | Optics & Laser Technology | 2016 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We propose a novel optical microfiber-loaded plasmonic TE-pass polarizer consisting of an optical microfiber placed on top of a silver substrate and demonstrate its performance both numerically by using the finite element method (FEM) and experimentally. The simulation results show that the loss in the fundamental TE mode is relatively low while at the same time the fundamental TM mode suffers from a large metal dissipation loss induced by excitation of the microfiber-loaded surface plasmonic mode. The microfiber was fabricated using the standard microheater brushing-tapering technique. The measured extinction ratio over the range of the C-band wavelengths is greater than 20 dB for the polarizer with a microfiber diameter of 4 µm, which agrees well with the simulation results.
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Authors
Youqiao Ma, Gerald Farrell, Yuliya Semenova, Binghui Li, Jinhui Yuan, Xinzhu Sang, Binbin Yan, Chongxiu Yu, Tuan Guo, Qiang Wu,