Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 8, 749(2010)

A novel polarization channel drop filter based on two-dimensional photonic crystals

Hongliang Ren1, Yali Qin1, Kai Liu1, Zhefu Wu1, Weisheng Hu2, Chun Jiang2, and Yaohui Jin2
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  • 1Institute of Fiber Optic Communication and Information Engineering, College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    A novel polarization channel drop filter (PCDF) based on two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) is presented. It consists of two line defect waveguides and two point defect micro-cavities. In the line-defect waveguides, the transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) polarization lights are guided using photonic band-gap and total internal reflection effect, respectively. The light at the resonant frequency for TE polarization can be transferred from one waveguide to the other using the proposed system. Compared with the existing four-port PCDF based on PCs, the three-port structure can realize a multi-channel wavelength system of PCDF more easily and can be an essential device in future polarization wavelength division multiplexing (PWDM) systems.

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    Hongliang Ren, Yali Qin, Kai Liu, Zhefu Wu, Weisheng Hu, Chun Jiang, Yaohui Jin. A novel polarization channel drop filter based on two-dimensional photonic crystals[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(8): 749

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    Received: Feb. 25, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 12, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100808.0749

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