On-chip polarization splitter based on a multimode plasmonic waveguide

Fengyuan Gan; Chengwei Sun; Hongyun Li; Qihuang Gong; Jianjun Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000047

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 1, 47(2018)

On-chip polarization splitter based on a multimode plasmonic waveguide

Fengyuan Gan^1,2, Chengwei Sun¹, Hongyun Li¹, Qihuang Gong^1,2, and Jianjun Chen^1,2、*

¹State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Plasmons

Received: Sep. 22, 2017

Accepted: Nov. 28, 2017

Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018

The Author Email: Jianjun Chen (jjchern@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000047

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