A surface plasmon resonance optical refractive index sensor (for aqueous medium) with high angular and spectral sensitivities S, very small full width at half maxima (FWHM) w (narrow resonance), and very high quality factor, χ = S/w, is proposed, which operates in both angular and spectral interrogation modes. The structure consists of a MgF 2 prism and a composite plasmonic waveguide consisting of a high-index dielectic layer and a thin metal (Ag) film, separated by a low-index layer. Above the metal film, the medium is analyte. It is shown that even with a prism of low index, the proposed sensor offers very small FWHM of reflection spectra, which improves the sensor performance. Numerically, an angular sensitivity of 168 • RIU −1 and a quality factor χ = 1680 RIU −1 can be achieved for the proposed configuration. Spectral sensitivity comes out to be 6000 nm RIU −1 .
An ultrahigh extinction ratio and extremely short length resonant integrated optic TE pass polarizer are proposed, which is based on the interaction between the short range surface plasmon polaritons and the mode guided by the dielectric waveguide. It is shown that a compact very high extinction ratio and very low insertion loss TE pass polarizer can be designed by optimizing the buffer and metal layer thicknesses. The layer thicknesses and indices are chosen in a way, such that the multilayer plasmonic structure supports only asymmetric eigenmodes. It is shown that, as a result of interference (beat formation) between these asymmetric eigenmodes, a polarizer with an extinction ratio of 171 dB and insertion loss less than 0.01 dB can be designed for 49.4 μm of its length.Index Terms-Integrated optic plasmonic polarizer, metal clad optical waveguide, surface plasmons.
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