••Demonstrate a novel passive optical-fiber sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR).••••Demonstrate a novel passive optical-fiber sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR).••The optical fiber sensor has a wide detection range of 1–1.4 RIU.••Comparing with the reported numerical and measurements based on an optical fiber structure, the experimental results based on fiber ring resonator present good agreement.In this paper a new passive optical fiber sensor depends on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) decorate by fabricating a configuration on metal-dielectric materials. A single-mode fiber is applied to harness the transmission light. In this work, FDTD method is introduced to control the injected refractive index on ring and fiber; hence, this leads to the shifting of the fiber SPR resonance wavelength. The advantageous of this mechanism is optical fiber sensor has a high sensitivity with the maximum of up to 1700 nm/RIU, wide detection range of 1–1.4 RIU (refractive index unit), and a nanometer resolution with a minimum of 4 nm. In addition, moreover we consider several performance parameters like sensitivity and FOM, interestingly it is shown applying silicon optical fiber improve the sensitivity. Comparing with the report. Optical fiber sensorFinite difference time domain (FDTD)More recently much efforts have done to find lable-free, cost effective, detection of multiple samples in parallel with high sensitivity method for technology of detection. Newly optical biosensors compered to another such as, mechanical, electrochemical, calorimetric, and acoustic have gained great attention owing to providing, high selectivity and sensitivity, real-time, simple, direct, and low-cost operation,,,. Generally, operation of biosensors is based on conversion of the recognition signal to the electrical signal that depends on the concentration of analyte performs. Fiber optical biosensors are divided into various groups, like: ring-core fiber (RCF), photonic crystal fiber sensor (PCF), fiber sensor based on a microwave photonic filter (MPF), fiber ring laser (FRL) and so on [3. 2.1. Optical fiber sensor structure3D view of the proposed optical fiber sensor is demonstrated in Fig. 1. The structure is periodic along X and Y directions with a pitch fixed at L = L_x = L_y = 750 nm. As it is shown in Fig. 1, the nanostructure including three layers including two metal layers silver and one silica (SiO2) layer as dielectric layer. The silver metasurface is composed of a ring-shaped hole and a vertical hollow strip inside a silver (Ag) film with thickness of h_3 = 40 nm placed on a silica layer with a thickness of h_2 = 40 nm backed with a silver ground. The ring-shaped hole serves as a bright mode with inner and outer radius of r_1 = 50 nm and r_2 = 200 nm, respectively. However, the hollow strip with a length and width of l = 600 nm and of w = 100 nm serves as a d.