Design of a Broadband Polarization Splitter Based on Anisotropy-Engineered Tilted Subwavelength Gratings
Polarization management is of paramount importance in integrated optics, particularly for highly birefringent photonic platforms such as silicon-on-insulator. In this paper, we present a polarization beam splitter based on a multimode interference coupler incorporating tilted subwavelength gratings....
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2019-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Photonics Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8693962/ |
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| Summary: | Polarization management is of paramount importance in integrated optics, particularly for highly birefringent photonic platforms such as silicon-on-insulator. In this paper, we present a polarization beam splitter based on a multimode interference coupler incorporating tilted subwavelength gratings. The tilt provides accurate control of the structural anisotropy and enables independent selection of the beat length for two orthogonal polarization states. As a result, device length is reduced to less than 100 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>m while simultaneously achieving broadband operation through subwavelength grating dispersion engineering. Insertion losses below 1 dB and an extinction ratio higher than 20 dB are demonstrated through three-dimensional FDTD simulation in a 131-nm bandwidth. |
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| ISSN: | 1943-0655 |