Title :
Ultra-compact CMOS compatible TE-pass polarizer for silicon photonics
Author :
Ying Huang ; Shiyang Zhu ; Huijuan Zhang ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Lo, Patrick Guo-Qiang
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelectron., A*STAR (Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res.), Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
An ultra-compact broadband TE-pass polarizer was demonstrated on SOI platform using horizontal nanoplasmonic slot waveguide. With 1μm device length, we achieved greater than 15dB polarization extinction ratio over 80nm bandwidth. The insertion loss was ~2dB.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; polarisation; silicon; waveguides; SOI platform; Si; horizontal nanoplasmonic slot waveguide; insertion loss; polarization extinction ratio; silicon photonics; ultracompact CMOS compatible TE-Pass polarizer; ultracompact broadband TE-pass polarizer; Extinction ratio; Insertion loss; Optical device fabrication; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
