Journal article
Efficient and compact TE-TM polarization converter built on silicon-on-insulator platform with a simple fabrication process
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Optics Letters
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2011, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp. 1059-1061
Abstract
An efficient TE-TM polarization converter built on a silicon-on-insulator nanophotonic platform is demonstrated. The strong cross-polarization coupling effect in air-cladded photonic-wire waveguides is employed to realize the conversion. A peak TE-TM coupling efficiency of 87% (-0.6 dB insertion loss) is measured experimentally.
A polarization conversion efficiency of >92% with an overall insertion loss of <- 1.6 dB is obtained in a wavelength range of 40nm. The proposed device is compact, with a total length of 44 μm and can be fabricated with one lithography and etching step. © 2011 Optical Society of America.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 1059-1061 |
| ISSN: | 15394794 and 01469592 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OL.36.001059 |
| ORCIDs: | Ding, Yunhong , Yvind, Kresten and Hvam, Jørn Märcher |
