… This structure comprises a solid silicon waveguide core of width W core and a lateral
SWG metamaterial cladding of width W clad . The SWG cladding is implemented as a z-periodic …

… planar waveguide with a metamaterial cladding consisting of … , and the resulting waveguides
and guidance mechanisms … with an air core through cladding refractive indices less than 1, …

… GaInAsP/InP waveguide extends through the n-InP cladding layer into … cladding layer
greatly affects the performance of the modulator. As shown in Figure 11d, extremely short device …

… ) of lateral cladding, enabling suspended waveguides with a lower … waveguides and better
mobility of gas flow [36]. Nevertheless, the RI engineering of the SWG metamaterial cladding …

… a new waveguide platform consisting of TeO 2 cladding on silicon SWG waveguides. The …
The bandstructure of our SWG device with waveguide width (W SWG ) of 450 nm, period (Λ) …

… suspended germanium waveguides with a subwavelength metamaterial lateral cladding
that … These all-germanium waveguides can be fabricated in one dry and one wet etch step. A …

… plane and with wavevector k is incident from the isotropic waveguide core onto the anisotropic
cladding, the tangential component ku = n1k0 sin(θ), is conserved. From (2) it follows that …

… removal of the buried oxide layer under the waveguide core, while taking advantage of the
… use of suspended silicon waveguides with subwavelength-grating metamaterial cladding to …

… metamaterial cladding on the silicon waveguide is with a gradient effective medium index.
Thus, the light power in the waveguide … medium index of the metamaterial cladding is higher.…

… In order to avoid THz wave coupling into the waveguide’s cladding, we cover the cladding
with metallic tape. First, we perform a simple transmission measurement to verify TM modes …