Title :
Selective excitation of guided modes in integrated aluminum nitride photonic circuits
Author :
Stegmaier, Matthias ; Pernice, Wolfram H. P.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Nanotechnol., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
We demonstrate methods to identify the modal composition of light guided through integrated multimode waveguides and discuss a scheme how arbitrary higher-order modes can selectively be excited. Exemplary, we show efficient and broadband polarization conversion.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; integrated optics; light polarisation; optical waveguides; AlN; broadband polarization conversion; guided modes; higher-order modes; integrated aluminum nitride photonic circuits; integrated multimode waveguides; modal composition; selective excitation; Broadband communication; Couplings; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical waveguides; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
