Hollow Core Antiresonant Fiber Based Polarizer and Refractive Index Sensor

We propose a new single polarization guided antiresonant fiber design made of nested and double ring cladding tubes with a high index material layer coating that can function as a polarizer and sensor. The diverse cladding tube combinations along with a high index content layer enhance the fiber's ability to block one polarized ray through coupling effect and also provide minimal loss for other polarized ray by inhibited coupling mechanism. Besides, the development of two modes for the proposed structure are investigated where the cladding mode crosses with the core mode at desired wavelength, results light blocking for one polarization. Hence, the
x
-polarized ray's confinement loss founds 576 dB/m, where 0.0018 dB/m loss is experienced in
y
-polarization, allowing the maximal polarization extinction ratio of 320000 at 1.55
$\mu$
m along with
$>$
100 value for 40 nm bandwidth with a high birefringence of
$0.55\times 10^{-4}$
. Moreover, the polarizing operation is successfully performed, where a crosstalk of larger than 20 dB for a compact length of 20 cm, is found from 1.538
$\mu$
m to 1.568
$\mu$
m of wavelength. Furthermore, the sensing performance is achieved as an example, such as the maximal wavelength sensitivity is found about 1293 nm/RIU for the fiber. Therefore, the simultaneous applications of the designed fiber make it an interesting device for optical systems.