• DocumentCode
    448993
  • Title

    Air hole photonic crystal beamsplitters integrated in ridge waveguide

  • Author

    Pottier, Pierre ; Mastroiacovo, Sara ; De La Rue, Richard M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Glasgow Univ., UK
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    183
  • Abstract
    Power and polarisation beamsplitters have been designed and fabricated, using air hole photonic crystal elements in SOI ridge waveguide T-junctions. 3D FDTD simulations show 99% efficiency for power splitting, with around 90% measured experimentally.
  • Keywords
    finite difference time-domain analysis; integrated optics; optical beam splitters; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; ridge waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; 3D FDTD simulations; SOI; air hole air hole photonic crystal; integrated optics; optical design; optical fabrication; photonic crystal beamsplitters; photonic crystal elements; polarisation beamsplitters; power beamsplitters; power splitting; ridge waveguide T-junctions; ridge waveguide configuration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576184