作者
Tymon Barwicz, Michael R Watts, Miloš A Popović, Peter T Rakich, Luciano Socci, Franz X Kärtner, Erich P Ippen, Henry I Smith
发表日期
2007/1/1
期刊
Nature Photonics
卷号
1
期号
1
页码范围
57-60
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
Microphotonic structures that strongly confine light, such as photonic crystals and micron-sized resonators, have unique characteristics that could radically advance technology,,,,,. However, such devices cannot be used in most applications because of their inherent polarization sensitivity; they respond differently to light polarized along different axes,,. To take advantage of the distinctive properties of these structures, a general, integrated, broadband solution to their polarization sensitivity is needed. Here, we show the first demonstration of such a solution. It enables arbitrary, polarization-sensitive, strong-confinement (SC) microphotonic devices to be rendered insensitive (transparent) to the input polarization at all wavelengths of operation. To test our approach, we create the first polarization-transparent add–drop filter from polarization-sensitive microring resonators. It shows almost complete elimination of …
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