Design of a Compact Photonic-Crystal-Based Polarization Channel Drop Filter

Author

Zhang, Wenfu ; Liu, Jihong ; Zhao, Wei

Volume

21

Issue

11

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

739

Lastpage

741

Abstract

We design a compact photonic-crystal-based polarization channel drop filter (PhC-PCDF) using the triangular lattice air holes PhC, which would be an essential device in future integrated polarization and wavelength-division-multiplexed (PWDM) system. The PhC-PCDF contains two line waveguides and a resonating system between them. In the line waveguide, the transverse-electric (TE) polarization and the transverse-magnetic (TM) are guided by photonic bandgap effect and total internal reflection effect, respectively. By resonating the system, a narrow bandwidth TE polarization is dropped from one waveguide to the other, leaving other components of the PWDM signal without any disturbance. The transmission efficiency for TM polarization and TE polarization are both over 95%. The quality factor of the TE PCDF is about 1800. The whole size of the designed PhC-PCDF can be 20a times 12a.

Keywords

Q-factor; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical waveguide filters; optical waveguides; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; wavelength division multiplexing; compact photonic-crystal; line waveguides; photonic bandgap effect; polarization channel drop filter; total internal reflection effect; transverse-electric polarization; triangular lattice air holes; wavelength-division-multiplexed system; Bandwidth; Laboratories; Lattices; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Photonic band gap; Resonance; Tellurium; Photonic crystal (PhC); polarization and wavelength-division multiplexing (PWDM); polarization channel drop filter (PCDF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2017503

Filename

4939386