14 September 2019 Bloch supermode interaction for high-performance polarization beam splitting
Yuan Xie, Zhenxing Chen, Yiheng Wu, Yangcheng Zhao, Tianye Huang, Zhuo Cheng
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Abstract

An ultracompact, wide bandwidth, polarization beam splitter (PBS) based on a Bloch supermode coupler is proposed. In such PBS, a subwavelength grating (SWG) waveguide is sandwiched between two identical strip waveguides as a selective coupling bridge. Profiting from the tailorable characteristics of the SWG waveguide, the coupling between TM supermodes can be made negligible. On the contrary, the TE supermodes can exchange their power efficiently, resulting in short coupling length. At wavelength of 1550 nm, the extinction ratio and insertion loss of the PBS can achieve 25.5 and 0.2 dB for TE mode and 32.1 and 0.1 dB for TM mode, respectively. Furthermore, it has a 10-dB bandwidth over 200 nm and offers a width deviation tolerance of ±15  nm. The proposed PBS can find applications in the areas of polarization-sensitive interconnection and signal processing.

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Yuan Xie, Zhenxing Chen, Yiheng Wu, Yangcheng Zhao, Tianye Huang, and Zhuo Cheng "Bloch supermode interaction for high-performance polarization beam splitting," Optical Engineering 58(9), 095102 (14 September 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.9.095102
Received: 5 July 2019; Accepted: 26 August 2019; Published: 14 September 2019
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Polarization

Silicon

Beam splitters

Phase matching

Bridges

Optical engineering

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