Photonic systems built on the Silicon-on-Insulator platform exhibit a strong birefringence,
and must thus be operated with a single polarization for most applications. Hence, on-chip …

Polarizers have been widely used in various optical systems to reduce polarization cross
talk. The polarizers based on the silicon nanowire waveguide can provide chip-scale device …

On-chip silicon polarizers with broad operating bandwidth and compact footprint have
recently attracted increasing attention for their applications in large capacity and high …

The polarizer is a key component for integrated photonics to deal with the strong waveguide
birefringence, especially for silicon photonics. A high-performance silicon TE-pass polarizer …

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel approach to implement a low-loss,
broadband, and compact transverse electric (TE)-pass polarizer on a silicon-on-insulator …

Bragg-gratings have been frequently used to design compact and high extinction ratio (ER)
on-chip polarizers. However, the strong reflection of the unwanted polarization may …

Subwavelength metamaterials exhibit a strong anisotropy that can be leveraged to
implement high-performance polarization handling devices in silicon-on-insulator. Whereas …

High-index contrast silicon waveguides exhibit strong birefringence that hinders the
development of polarization-insensitive devices, especially for sub-micrometer silicon layer …

A TM polarizer working for whole optical communication bands with high performance is
proposed on a 220-nm-thick silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. The device is based on …

A high-performance integrated silicon TE-pass polarizer is proposed and demonstrated. The
polarizer uses a series of adiabatic waveguide bends that yield high extinction ratio for the …