Design of a transverse electric-pass/transverse magnetic-splitting three-guide directional coupler composed of two slot waveguides and one silicon wire

Jiayuan Wang; Jinbiao Xiao; Xiaohan Sun

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.9.094602

6 September 2012 Design of a transverse electric-pass/transverse magnetic-splitting three-guide directional coupler composed of two slot waveguides and one silicon wire

Jiayuan Wang, Jinbiao Xiao, Xiaohan Sun

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 9, 094602 (September 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.9.094602

Abstract

A three-guide directional coupler composed of two slot waveguides and one silicon wire with a function of transverse electric (TE)-pass/transverse magnetic (TM)-splitting is proposed and designed using a modified 3-D full-vectorial beam propagation method. In our design, quasi-TE modes fed in the middle silicon wire pass through without coupling, whereas quasi-TM modes fed in the same channel are evenly split into the outer slot waveguides. With properly chosen parameters, a TE-pass/TM-splitting directional coupler with a length of 22.6 μm, including the straight coupling region and the S-bends, is achieved with the crosstalk of −31 and −35 dB for quasi-TE and quasi-TM modes, respectively. In addition, the tolerances to the structural parameters and operating wavelength are also investigated in detail.

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Jiayuan Wang, Jinbiao Xiao, and Xiaohan Sun "Design of a transverse electric-pass/transverse magnetic-splitting three-guide directional coupler composed of two slot waveguides and one silicon wire," Optical Engineering 51(9), 094602 (6 September 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.9.094602

Published: 6 September 2012

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