Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 12, 1432(2019)
Anisotropic metamaterial-assisted all-silicon polarizer with 415-nm bandwidth Spotlight on Optics
Fig. 1. (a) 3D view of the proposed on-chip all-silicon polarizer utilizing the AM with some key parameters labeled. The white dashed line shows the optical axis orientation of the SWG metamaterial. (b) The enlarged top view of the input section with some key parameters labeled; (c) calculated extraordinary (
Fig. 2. Calculated transmittance spectra for TE and TM modes with varied maximum SWG duty cycle (
Fig. 3. Calculated (a) EL and (b) PER spectra with varied SWG period number (
Fig. 4. (a) Calculated TE and TM light propagation profiles for the optimized polarizer at three different wavelengths (
Fig. 5. Calculated transmittance spectra for the metamaterial-assisted polarizer with deviated parameters.
Fig. 6. (a) Microscope image of the fabricated devices; (b) SEM image of the fabricated metamaterial-assisted polarizer. The measured transmittance spectra over (c) O-, E-bands and (d) S-, C-, L-, U-bands.
Fig. 7. (a) Microscope image of the cascaded polarizers. The measured single polarizer EL spectra over (b) O-, E-bands and (c) S-, C-, L-, U-bands.
Fig. 8. Calculated TM mode transmittance spectra with varied SWG period number (
Fig. 9. (a) Configuration of the GC with some key parameters labeled; (b) measured EL spectra for the fabricated GCs with different fiber probe tilt angles
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Hongnan Xu, Daoxin Dai, Yaocheng Shi. Anisotropic metamaterial-assisted all-silicon polarizer with 415-nm bandwidth[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(12): 1432
Category: Silicon Photonics
Received: Aug. 27, 2019
Accepted: Oct. 17, 2019
Published Online: Nov. 19, 2019
The Author Email: Yaocheng Shi (yaocheng@zju.edu.cn)