Ultra wideband integrated polarization splitter/combiner using electro-optic effect in GaAs

Mohamed A. Swillam; Mohamed H. Bakr; Xun Li

doi:10.1117/12.873484

21 February 2011 Ultra wideband integrated polarization splitter/combiner using electro-optic effect in GaAs

Mohamed A. Swillam, Mohamed H. Bakr, Xun Li

Proceedings Volume 7933, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XIX; 79330V (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873484
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a novel design of integrated polarization splitter/combiner with ultra wide bandwidth. The proposed design utilizes the electro-optic (Pockels) effect in GaAs for splitting the polarizations. It also exploits the self imaging phenomenon in MMI couplers with a parabolic index distribution in the vertical direction to significantly increase the bandwidth. A stair case index approximation of this index profile is utilized to facilitate the fabrication process. The fabrication of this profile is feasible through the current technology using multiple etching. Our proposed design maintains a variation of less than 0.5 dB in the power coupling over a bandwidth of 400 nm. We also propose a novel approach for design optimization of the proposed structure. This approach is capable of extracting the propagation constants and their gradient with respect to all the design parameters. This allows for using gradient-based optimization The computational time of this optimization procedure is only a fraction of that for other recently proposed approaches.

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Mohamed A. Swillam, Mohamed H. Bakr, and Xun Li "Ultra wideband integrated polarization splitter/combiner using electro-optic effect in GaAs", Proc. SPIE 7933, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XIX, 79330V (21 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873484

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