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Exploring the optical properties of exposed-core-based photonic-crystal fibers

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A photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) based on the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect with low confinement loss and high sensitivity response is designed and its optical properties analyzed when varying different parameters. The SPR-based PCF design is analyzed to enable control over its light propagation and evanescent properties. In this investigation, gold (Au) is used as a plasmonic material to generate the SPR effect at the interface. The simulation results reveal a maximum sensitivity response of 45,303 nm/RIU with resolution of 7.0634 × 10–6 and low confinement loss of 0.575 dB/cm in the wavelength range from 1.2 to 2 µm. A high figure of merit of 378 with low full-width at half-maxima is also obtained. The proposed structure thus offers ultralow confinement loss and high sensitivity.

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The work is funded by grant number 12-INF2970-10 from the National Science, Technology, and Innovation Plan (MAARIFAH), the King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We thank the Science and Technology Unit at Umm Al-Qura University for their continued logistics support.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Technology, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, 1902, Bangladesh

    Sumaiya Akhtar Mitu, Kawsar Ahmed, Hasan Abdullah & Bikash Kumar Paul

  2. Bio-photomatiχ Group, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail, 1902, Bangladesh

    Kawsar Ahmed & Bikash Kumar Paul

  3. Department of Software Engineering (SWE), Daffodil International University (DIU), Sukrabad, Dhaka, 1207, Bangladesh

    Bikash Kumar Paul

  4. Computer Engineering Department, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, 24381, Saudi Arabia

    Fahad Ahmed Al-Zahrani

  5. Department of ECE and Department of Physics, Marwadi University, Rajkot, 360003, India

    Shobhit K. Patel

  6. Department of Physics, University College of Engineering, Ramanathapuram, India

    M. S. Mani Rajan

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Mitu, S.A., Ahmed, K., Abdullah, H. et al. Exploring the optical properties of exposed-core-based photonic-crystal fibers. J Comput Electron 20, 1260–1269 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-021-01674-y

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