30 January 2024 Compact transverse-magnetic-pass polarizer with a subwavelength grating based on a hybrid silicon-lithium niobate on insulator platform
Zhiwei Zheng, Xuan She, Xiwei Shen, Fei Huang, Hongshuo Liu, Xiaowu Shu, Kan Chen
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Abstract

In this work, a transverse magnetic (TM)-pass polarizer based on subwavelength grating (SWG) on the emerging potential hybrid silicon-LNOI platform is proposed. By integrating silicon material onto the LNOI platform, the optical power of TE0 and TM0 modes is judiciously distributed to distinct regions. This design not only effectively blocks the TE0 mode but also enables low-loss transmission of the TM0 mode, thereby achieving a balanced manipulation of both polarizations. Due to the strong reflection of TE0 mode by SWG, a polarizer is realized with a high polarization extinction ratio (PER) and low insertion loss (73 dB and 0.37 dB respectively at 1550 nm) in a compact size (device length is 23.38 μm). Moreover, the PER is beyond 50 dB and the insertion loss is under 0.46 dB in a broad wavelength range of 1525 to 1585 nm.

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Zhiwei Zheng, Xuan She, Xiwei Shen, Fei Huang, Hongshuo Liu, Xiaowu Shu, and Kan Chen "Compact transverse-magnetic-pass polarizer with a subwavelength grating based on a hybrid silicon-lithium niobate on insulator platform," Optical Engineering 63(1), 017106 (30 January 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.63.1.017106
Received: 1 November 2023; Accepted: 9 January 2024; Published: 30 January 2024
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KEYWORDS
Silicon

Polarizers

Transmittance

Refractive index

Waveguides

Manufacturing

Reflection

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