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 …

The polarization beam splitter (PBS) is an essential component in the polarization diversity
circuit to overcome the strong polarization dependence of silicon nanophotonic devices …

Many applications, including optical multiplexing, switching, and detection, call for low-cost
and broadband photonic devices with polarization-independent operation. While the silicon …

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 …

It is challenging to simultaneously consider device dimension, polarization extinction ratio
(PER), insertion loss (IL), and operable bandwidth (BW) to design a polarization beam …

Polarization manipulation is essential in photonic integrated circuits and has numerous
applications in various fields, such as optical communication, nonlinear optics, and quantum …

Anisotropic metameterials (AM) provide a new avenue for a next-generation silicon platform
to design ultra-compact, densely integrated optical components, thus functional devices …

In this Letter, we present a high extinction ratio and compact on-chip polarization beam
splitter (PBS), based on an extreme skin-depth (eskid) waveguide. Subwavelength-scale …

Subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials have garnered a great interest for their
singular capability to shape the material properties and the propagation of light, allowing the …