Ultra-compact resonant tunneling-based TE-pass and TM-pass polarizers for SOI platform

作者：Azzam Shaimaa I; Obayya Salah S A^*

来源：Optics Letters, 2015, 40(6): 1061-1064.

DOI：10.1364/OL.40.001061

We investigate the polarization-dependent resonance tunneling effect in silicon waveguides to achieve ultra-compact and highly efficient polarization fitters for integrated silicon photonics, to the best of our knowledge for the first time. We hence propose simple structures for silicon-on-insulator transverse electric (TE)-pass and transverse magnetic (TM)-pass polarizers based on the resonance tunneling effect in silicon waveguides. The suggested TE-pass polarizer has insertion losses (IL), extinction ratio (ER), and return losses (RL) of 0.004 dB, 18 dB, and 24 dB, respectively; whereas, the TM-pass polarizer is characterized by IL, ER, and RL of 0.15 dB, 20 dB, and 23 dB, respectively. Both polarizers have an ultra-short device length of only 1.35 and 1.31 mu m for the TE-pass and the TM-pass polarizers which are the shortest reported lengths to the best of our knowledge.

• 出版日期2015-3-15