Subwavelength structured silicon waveguides and photonic devices

L Sun, Y Zhang, Y He, H Wang, Y Su - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Subwavelength structures such as subwavelength gratings (SWGs) and subwavelength
metamaterials are capable of tailoring the optical properties of materials and controlling the …

Compact high-performance adiabatic 3-dB coupler enabled by subwavelength grating slot in the silicon-on-insulator platform

L Xu, Y Wang, A Kumar, E El-Fiky, D Mao… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a compact high-performance adiabatic 3-dB coupler for the silicon-on-
insulator platform. The refractive index of the gap region between two coupling waveguides …

Advanced passive silicon photonic devices with asymmetric waveguide structures

D Dai - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various passive photonic integrated devices have been developed successfully with silicon-
on-insulator (SOI) nanowires in the past decade. It is well known that SOI-nanowire …

Compact and high extinction ratio polarization beam splitter using subwavelength grating couplers

Y Xu, J Xiao - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A compact and high extinction ratio polarization beam splitter using subwavelength grating
(SWG) couplers is proposed and characterized, where the SWG couplers are located …

Compact polarization beam splitter for silicon photonic integrated circuits with a 340-nm-thick silicon core layer

C Li, D Dai - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A polarization beam splitter (PBS) is proposed and realized for silicon photonic integrated
circuits with a 340-nm-thick silicon core layer by introducing an asymmetric directional …

Metamaterial‐enabled Fully On‐Chip Polarization‐Handling Devices

Y Zhao, J Xiang, A He, Y He, X Guo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization manipulation is essential in photonic integrated circuits and has numerous
applications in various fields, such as optical communication, nonlinear optics, and quantum …

Sub-wavelength grating-assisted polarization splitter-rotators for silicon-on-insulator platforms

M Ma, AHK Park, Y Wang, H Shoman, F Zhang… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate broadband, entirely mode-evolution-based, polarization
splitter-rotators (PSR) using sub-wavelength grating (SWG) assisted adiabatic waveguides …

High extinction ratio and broadband silicon TE-pass polarizer using subwavelength grating index engineering

Y Xiong, DX Xu, JH Schmid, P Cheben… - IEEE Photonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Anisotropic metamaterial-assisted all-silicon polarizer with 415-nm bandwidth

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Photonics Research, 2019 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Transmissive silicon photonic dichroic filters with spectrally selective waveguides

ES Magden, N Li, M Raval, CV Poulton… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Many optical systems require broadband filters with sharp roll-offs for efficiently splitting or
combining light across wide spectra. While free space dichroic filters can provide broadband …