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  • 标题:Polarization- and wavelength-agnostic nanophotonic beam splitter
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  • 作者:David González-Andrade ; Christian Lafforgue ; Elena Durán-Valdeiglesias
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:9
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-9
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-40497-7
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:High-performance optical beam splitters are of fundamental importance for the development of advanced silicon photonics integrated circuits. However, due to the high refractive index contrast of silicon-on-insulator platforms, state-of-the-art nanophotonic splitters are hampered by trade-offs in bandwidth, polarization dependence and sensitivity to fabrication errors. Here, we present a new strategy that exploits modal engineering in slotted waveguides to overcome these limitations, enabling ultra-broadband polarization-insensitive optical power splitters with relaxed fabrication tolerances. The proposed splitter design relies on a single-mode slot waveguide that is gradually transformed into two strip waveguides by a symmetric taper, yielding equal power splitting. Based on this concept, we experimentally demonstrate -3 ± 0.5 dB polarization-independent transmission for an unprecedented 390 nm bandwidth (1260-1650 nm), even in the presence of waveguide width deviations as large as ±25 nm.
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