Single TE01 Mode Cylindrical Vector Beams Transmission Based on Composite Gold Nanowire Embedded Photonic Crystal Fiber

A ring-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) embedded composite gold nanowire is proposed to propagate single TE
₀₁
mode cylindrical vector beam. The ring-core PCF mainly supports six low loss modes including x-polarized fundamental mode, y-polarized fundamental mode, TE
₀₁
mode, TM
₀₁
mode, HE
_21-e
and HE
_21-o
modes. By introducing the composite gold nanowire into the center of the ring-core PCF, only the TE
₀₁
mode can propagate through the fiber with a low loss; while the other modes suffer a high loss due to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR). Numerical results demonstrate that the ring-core PCF embedded with two-shell structured composite gold nanowire has large loss ratios of the other modes to TE
₀₁
mode. The loss ratios are greater than or equal to 50 within the wavelength range from 1.3 to 1.39 μm. It indicates that single TE
₀₁
mode cylindrical vector beam can be obtained by using the ring-core PCF based on SPR, which makes the fiber have a great potential in laser processing, nanotechnology, high resolution imaging and optical capture.