Transforming guided waves with metamaterial waveguide cores

S. Viaene; V. Ginis; J. Danckaert; P. Tassin

doi:10.1117/12.2227501

18 April 2016 Transforming guided waves with metamaterial waveguide cores

S. Viaene, V. Ginis, J. Danckaert, P. Tassin

Proceedings Volume 9883, Metamaterials X; 98831F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227501
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Metamaterials make use of subwavelength building blocks to enhance our control on the propagation of light. To determine the required material properties for a given functionality, i.e., a set of desired light flows inside a metamaterial device, metamaterial designs often rely on a geometrical design tool known as transformation optics. In recent years, applications in integrated photonics motivated several research groups to develop two-dimensional versions of transformation optics capable of routing surface waves along graphene-dielectric and metal-dielectric interfaces. Although guided electromagnetic waves are highly relevant to applications in integrated optics, no consistent transformation-optical framework has so far been developed for slab waveguides. Indeed, the conventional application of transformation optics to dielectric slab waveguides leads to bulky three-dimensional devices with metamaterial implementations both inside and outside of the waveguide’s core. In this contribution, we develop a transformationoptical framework that still results in thin metamaterial waveguide devices consisting of a nonmagnetic metamaterial core of varying thickness [Phys. Rev. B 93.8, 085429 (2016)]. We numerically demonstrate the effectiveness and versatility of our equivalence relations with three crucial functionalities: a beam bender, a beam splitter and a conformal lens. Our devices perform well on a qualitative (comparison of fields) and quantitative (comparison of transmitted power) level compared to their bulky counterparts. As a result, the geometrical toolbox of transformation optics may lead to a plethora of integrated metamaterial devices to route guided waves along optical chips.

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S. Viaene, V. Ginis, J. Danckaert, and P. Tassin "Transforming guided waves with metamaterial waveguide cores", Proc. SPIE 9883, Metamaterials X, 98831F (18 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227501

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