Integration of a photonic crystal polarization beam splitter and waveguide bend

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8657-8668

  Zheng, Wanhua ^a   Xing, Mingxin ^a   Ren, Gang ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^b   Zhou, Wenjun ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Chen, Lianghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

INDIVIDUAL DEVICES; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; INTEGRATION DESIGN; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 66549106681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008657     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. E. Yablonovitch, "Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059-2062 (1987).
2. J. D. Joannopoulos, S. G. Johnson, J. N. Winn, and R. D. Meade, Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light, second edition (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008).
3. K. Nozaki, H. Watanabe, and T. Baba, "Photonic crystal nanolaser monolithically integrated with passive waveguide for effective light extraction," Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 021108 (2008).
4. W. H. Zheng, G. Ren, X. T. Ma, X. H. Cai, L. H. Chen, K. Nozaki and T. Baba, "Dipole mode photonic crystal point defect laser on InGaAsP/InP," J. Crystal Growth 292, 341-344 (2006).
5. Z. Qiang, W. Zhou, and R. A. Soref, "Optical add-drop filters based on photonic crystal ring resonators," Opt. Express 15, 1823-1831 (2007).
6. P. Pottier, S. Mastroiacovo, and R. M. De La Rue, "Power and polarization beam-splitters, mirrors, and integrated interferometers based on air-hole photonic crystals and lateral large index-contrast waveguides," Opt. Express 14, 5617-5633 (2006).
7. Y. Watanabe, N. Ikeda, Y. Sugimoto, Y. Takata, Y. Kitagawa, A. Mizutani, N. Ozaki, and K. Asakawa, "Topology optimization of waveguide bends with wide, flat bandwidth in air-bridge-type photonic crystal slabs," J. Appl. Phys. 101, 113108 (2007).
8. L. B. Soldano, A. H. de Vreede, M. K. Smit, B. H.Verbeek, E. G. Metaal, and F. H. Groen, "Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Polarization Splitter in InGaAsP/LnP," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 6, 402-405 (1994).
9. P. K. Wei and W. S. Wang, "A TE-TM Mode Splitter on Lithium Niobate Using Ti, Ni, and MgO Diffusions," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 6, 245-248 (1994).
10. J. M. Hong, H. H. Ryu, S. R. Park, J. W. Jeong, S. G. Lee, E. H. Lee, S. G. Park, D. Woo, S. Kim, and B. H. O, "Design and Fabrication of a Significantly Shortened Multimode Interference Coupler for Polarization Splitter Application," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 15, 72-74 (2003).
11. T. Liu, A. R. Zakharian, M. Fallahi, J. V. Moloney, and M. Mansuripur, "Design of a Compact Photonic-Crystal-Based Polarizing Beam Splitter," IEEE Photon Techol. Lett. 17, 1435-1437 (2005).
12. E. Schonbrun, Q. Wu, W. Park, T. Yamashita, C. J. Summers, "Polarization beam splitter based on a photonic crystal heterostructure," Opt. Lett. 31, 3104-3106 (2006).
13. V. Zabelin, L. A. Dunbar, N. Le Thomas, R. Houdré, M. V. Kotlyar, L.O'Faolain, and T. F. Krauss, "Self-collimating photonic crystal polarization beam splitter," Opt. Lett. 32, 530-532 (2007).
14. A. Mekis, J. C. Chen, I. Kurland, S. Fan, P. R. Villeneuve, and J. D. Joannopoulos, "High Transmission through Sharp Bends in Photonic Crystal Waveguides," Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3787-3790 (1996).
15. A. Chutinan, M. Okano, and S. Noda, "Wider bandwidth with high transmission through waveguide bends in two-dimensional photonic crystal slabs," Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 1698-1700 (2002).
16. S. Olivier, H. Benisty, M. Rattier, C. Weisbuch, M. Qiu, A. Karlsson, C. J. M. Smith, R. Houdré and U. Oesterle, "Resonant and nonresonant transmission through waveguide bends in a planar photonic crystal," Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2514-2516 (2001).
17. B. Miao, C. Chen, S. Shi, J. Murakowski, and D. W. Prather, "High-Efficiency Broad-Band Transmission Through a Double-60°Bend in a Planar Photonic Crystal Single-Line Defect Waveguide," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16, 2469-2471 (2004).
18. P. I. Borel, A. Harpøth, L. H. Frandsen, and M. Kristensen, "Topology optimization and fabrication of photonic crystal structures," Opt. Express 12, 1996-2001 (2004).
19. N. Moll and G.-L. Bona, "Bend design for the low-group-velocity mode in photonic crystal-slab waveguides," Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 4322-4324 (2004).
20. H. Benisty C. Weisbuch, D. Labilloy, M. Rattier, C. J. M. Smith, T. F. Krauss, Richard M. De La Rue, R. Houdré, U. Oesterle, C. Jouanin, and D. Cassagne, "Optical and confinement properties of two-dimensional photonic crystals," J. Lightwave Technol. 17, 2063-2077 (1999).
21. S. Boscolo, M. Midrio, and C. G. Someda, "Coupling and Decoupling of Electromagnetic Waves in Parallel 2-D Photonic Crystal Waveguides," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 38, 47-53 (2002).
22. A. Adibi, Y. Xu, R. K. Lee, A. Yariv, and A. Scherer, "Guiding mechanisms in dielectric-core photonic-crystal optical waveguides," Phys. Rev. B 64, 033308 (2001).
23. P. I. Borel, L. H. Frandsen, M. Thorhauge, A. Harp0th, Y. X. Zhuang and M. Kristensen, Opt. Express 11, 1757 (2003).
24. G. Ren, W.H. Zheng, Y.J. Zhang, K. Wang, X.Y. Du, M.X. Xing, and L.H. Chen, "Mode Analysis and Design of a Low-Loss Photonic Crystal 60 Waveguide Bend," IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 26, 2215-2218 (2008).
25. M. L. Povinelli, S. G. Johnson, S. Fan, and J. D. Joannopoulos, "Emulation of two-dimensional photonic crystal defect modes in a photonic crystal with a three-dimensional photonic band gap," Phys. Rev. B. 64, 075313 (2001).