Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 2, 57(2017)

General coupled-mode analysis of a geometrically symmetric waveguide array with nonuniform gain and loss

Zhen-Zhen Liu1, Qiang Zhang1, Yuntian Chen2,3, and Jun-Jun Xiao1、*
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  • 1College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 2School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Schematic of the proposed structure consisting of four coupled waveguides in a square array and the coupled-mode schemes supported in this structure. (a) Top view of the cross section profile, (b)–(e) four coupled-mode fashions between the modes supported in the diagonal (A) and off-diagonal waveguides (B). The geometrical parameters are r=0.2 μm, d=0.5 μm. The relative permittivity of the diagonal (A) waveguides and off-diagonal (B) waveguides are ϵA=ϵco+jϵA,I and ϵB=ϵco+jϵB,I, respectively. Here, ϵco=12.25 corresponds to silicon, and the background medium (silica) has the dielectric function ϵb=2.25.
    Propagation constants β± as a function of ϵI for different mode-coupling cases C1 (black solid curve), C2 (green solid curve), C3 (blue dashed curve), and C4 (red dashed curve). (a), (c) The real parts; (b), (d) the imaginary parts. The corresponding structure has ϵB,I=0 and ϵA,I=ϵI<0.
    Propagation constants as a function of ϵI for different modes supported in the diagonal (off-diagonal) waveguides: M1 (black circles, real; black solid curve, imaginary), M2 (red squares, real; red dashed curve, imaginary), M3 (green plusses, real; green solid curve, imaginary), and M4 (blue X’s, real; blue dotted curve, imaginary). (a) FEM results, (b) general CMT results. The left y axis corresponds to the real parts of the propagation constants, and the right y axis is for the imaginary parts. Here, ϵA,I=ϵI.
    Phase diagram in the parameter space (ϵI, α): the solid and dashed lines mark the classical CMT phase boundaries (e.g., one of the supermodes has a real-valued propagation constant) based on Eq. (2), and the symbols represent the FEM results.
    (a) Evolution of the intensity |aA|2 (red dashed line) and |aB|2 (black solid line) as functions of z for the initial condition that only the lossy waveguide mode aA is excited, (b) the total intensities (|aA|2+|aB|2) for the cases where the loss (red dashed line) and gain (black solid line) waveguides modes are excited. (a) and (b) show the system at the α-point (ϵI,α)=(0.6,0.0.9459); (c) and (d) are similar to (a) and (b), but for the point (ϵI,α)=(0.5,0.9459) in phase I.
    Propagation constant β as a function of ϵI: (a), (c), (e) the real parts; (b), (d), (f) the imaginary parts. The black solid lines correspond to the FEM results, the dashed red lines show the classical CMT results, and the symbols represent the general CMT results. The insets in (b) and (d) are zoomed-in views of the respective panels for relatively small ϵI values. (a), (b) α=0.9; (c), (d) α=1.08; (e), (f) α=1.3.
    • Table 1. Coupled-Mode Components and the Coefficients of the Hamiltonian in Eq. (3) for Four Combinations of Modes Coupling, i.e., Cases Shown in Figs. 1(b)1(e)

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      Table 1. Coupled-Mode Components and the Coefficients of the Hamiltonian in Eq. (3) for Four Combinations of Modes Coupling, i.e., Cases Shown in Figs. 1(b)1(e)

      CombinationC1C2C3C4
      DiagonalM3M1M2M4
      Off-diagonalM4M1M2M3
      βA/k02.48422.46722.47022.4867
      βB/k02.48672.46722.47022.4842
      γA/(k0ϵA,I)0.15760.16410.16380.1576
      γB/(k0ϵB,I)0.15760.16410.16380.1576
      κA/k00.10220.0054j0.0230.0187+0.0016j0.103
      κB/k00.1022+0.0054j0.0230.01870.0016j0.103
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    Paper Information

    Category: Array Waveguide Devices

    Received: Sep. 15, 2016

    Accepted: Dec. 26, 2016

    Published Online: Oct. 10, 2018

    The Author Email: Jun-Jun Xiao (eiexiao@hitsz.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000057

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