Inverse-designed low-loss and wideband polarization-insensitive silicon waveguide crossing

Z Yu, A Feng, X Xi, X Sun - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Waveguide crossings are an essential component for constructing complex and functional
on-chip photonic networks. Polarization-insensitive waveguide crossings are desired …

Hierarchical design and optimization of silicon photonics

A Michaels, MC Wu… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is a rapidly maturing platform for optical communication and sensing. As
systems leveraging silicon photonics have grown in size and complexity, so too has the …

Subwavelength engineering in silicon photonic devices

W Zhou, Z Cheng, X Chen, K Xu, X Sun… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in using subwavelength-scale
nanostructures with elaborately designed periodic and disordered photonic materials for …

Polygonal Maxwell's fisheye lens via transformation optics as multimode waveguide crossing

SH Badri, HR Saghai, H Soofi - Journal of Optics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Multimode waveguide crossings are crucial components for novel mode-division-
multiplexing systems. One of the challenges of multimode waveguide routing in MDM …

Wide-band low cross-talk photonic crystal waveguide intersections using self-collimation phenomenon

E Danaee, A Geravand, M Danaie - Optics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, wide-bandwidth low cross-talk W1 photonic crystal waveguide intersections
are proposed based on self-collimation effect. The waveguides are realized using a 2D …

High-performance and compact broadband terahertz plasmonic waveguide intersection

M Yuan, Y Li, Y Lu, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, X Zhang… - …, 2019 - degruyter.com
For terahertz (THz) integrated systems, an intersection between waveguides is inevitable
and is often accompanied by considerable crosstalk and loss. Here, we propose and …

Compact polarization beam splitter assisted by subwavelength grating in triple-waveguide directional coupler

T Huang, Y Xie, Y Wu, Z Cheng, S Zeng, PS Ping - Applied optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A polarization beam splitter (PBS) is one of the key components for manipulating different
polarization states in the areas of optical interconnection and communication. In this paper …

Subwavelength grating metamaterial racetrack resonator for sensing and modulation

X Xu, Z Pan, CJ Chung, CW Chang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subwavelength grating metamaterial racetrack ring resonator (SGMRTR) increases the
coupling strength between the bus waveguide and the ring resonator and thus better …

Subwavelength-grating-based compact and broadband TE-pass polarizer for slot waveguides on a SOI platform

B Ni, J Xiao - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We have numerically proposed a compact, broadband, and high-extinction-ratio (ER) TE-
pass polarizer for vertical slot waveguides using a subwavelength grating slot (SWGS) …

SiNx–Si interlayer coupler using a gradient index metamaterial

P Xu, Y Zhang, S Zhang, Y Chen, S Yu - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we demonstrate a metamaterial (MM)-based SiN_x–Si interlayer coupler. A
gradient index (GRIN) MM was employed to achieve refractive index matching, balancing …