Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 7, 0713001(2021)

Design of Polarization-Insensitive Multimode Interference 1×3 Optical Power Splitter

Jingli Wang1、*, Liguo Huangfu1, and Heming Chen2
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China;
  • 2Bell Honors School, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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    We proposed a polarization-insensitive 1×3 optical power splitter with broadband performance. Ion assisted deposition was used to change the refractive index of the core SiNx in a sandwiched structure, so that the beat lengths of the orthogonal polarization modes were equal and thus polarization insensitivity was achieved. A combined structure of trapezoidal multimode interference waveguide and tapered waveguide was introduced to realize broad bandwidth, low loss, and good beam splitting uniformity. Furthermore, a finite-difference time-domain method was applied to simulation and optimization, and the results demonstrate that the length of the multimode interference waveguide is only 13.2 μm; the excess loss and imbalance of the splitter are lower than 0.07 dB and 0.03 dB, respectively. In addition, the 0.5 dB-loss bandwidth is as high as 255 nm, which can cover S, C, L, U, and part of E bands. Therefore, the proposed splitter has potential application value in the future integrated optical systems.

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    Jingli Wang, Liguo Huangfu, Heming Chen. Design of Polarization-Insensitive Multimode Interference 1×3 Optical Power Splitter[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(7): 0713001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Sep. 4, 2020

    Accepted: Nov. 23, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 11, 2021

    The Author Email: Wang Jingli (jlwang@njupt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202141.0713001

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