Power splitters for ultralow refractive index metallic nanostructures waveguides

Author

Rodriguez-Esquerre, V.F. ; Koshiba, Masanori ; Hernández-Figueroa, H.E. ; Rubio-Mercedes, C.E.

Author_Institution

Div. of Media & Network Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

25-28 July 2005

Firstpage

201

Lastpage

204

Abstract

We investigated power splitters in air core waveguides with a metallic photonic crystal cladding. The mechanism of propagation in these guides is the total external reflection. The cladding is formed by a periodic arrangement of metallic wires on square or triangular lattices. Power splitters can be designed by modifying the geometry at the splitting region by introducing a reflecting structure in order to increase the transmission coefficient. Some splitters based on these structures are analyzed by an efficient frequency domain finite element approach.

Keywords

cladding techniques; finite element analysis; frequency-domain analysis; nanowires; photonic crystals; refractive index; waveguide components; waveguide theory; air core waveguides; external reflection; frequency domain finite element approach; metallic nanostructures waveguides; metallic photonic crystal cladding; power splitters; triangular lattices; ultralow refractive index waveguides; Copper; Electromagnetic waveguides; Gold; Lattices; Nanostructures; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Silver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics, 2005 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9341-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2005.1579977

Filename

1579977