Versatile on-chip light coupling and (de)multiplexing from arbitrary polarizations to controlled waveguide modes using an integrated dielectric metasurface

Yuan Meng; Zhoutian Liu; Zhenwei Xie; Ride Wang; Tiancheng Qi; Futai Hu; Hyunseok Kim; Qirong Xiao; Xing Fu; Qiang Wu; Sang-Hoon Bae; Mali Gong; Xiaocong Yuan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.384449

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 4, 564(2020)

Versatile on-chip light coupling and (de)multiplexing from arbitrary polarizations to controlled waveguide modes using an integrated dielectric metasurface

Yuan Meng^1,2、†, Zhoutian Liu^1,3、†, Zhenwei Xie⁴, Ride Wang⁵, Tiancheng Qi^1,3, Futai Hu¹, Hyunseok Kim^2,6, Qirong Xiao^1,3、*, Xing Fu^1,3, Qiang Wu⁵, Sang-Hoon Bae^2,6, Mali Gong^1,3,7, and Xiaocong Yuan⁴

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

³Key Laboratory of Photonic Control Technology, Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

⁴Nanophotonics Research Centre, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

⁵Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

⁶Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

⁷e-mail: gongml@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

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Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Nov. 27, 2019

Accepted: Jan. 23, 2020

Published Online: Mar. 31, 2020

The Author Email: Qirong Xiao (xiaoqirong@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.384449

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