Ultra-compact and broadband all-silicon TM-pass power splitter using subwavelength holey-structured metamaterial waveguides. 2022

Yufei Chen, and Jiao Zhang, and Min Zhu, and Shengbao Wu, and Jinbiao Xiao

Power splitters with polarization management features are highly desired to construct high-density silicon photonic integrated circuits. However, few attempts have been made to design a single device that can act as both a power splitter and a TE- or TM-pass polarizer. In this paper, for the first time, we experimentally demonstrate an ultra-compact and broadband all-silicon TM-pass power splitter, where a triple-guide directional coupler (TGDC) composed of three parallel subwavelength holey-structured metamaterial waveguides (SHMWs) is located at central coupling region and three regular strip waveguides are connected at the input/output ports. Such a SHMW can enhance the reflection to realize a wide stop-band for the undesired TE polarized light, while achieving the low loss transmission for the TM polarized light. Besides, the TM dispersion can be significantly flattened by the designed SHMWs, leading to a broadband power splitting for TM polarization. Simulated results show that an ultra-compact device of 1.7 × 4 µm2 in size is obtained with an insertion loss (IL) of 0.34 dB and an extinction ratio (ER) of 36 dB at 1550 nm, and its working bandwidth can be extended to ∼240 nm by keeping IL < 0.9 dB and ER > 16 dB. The measurements of the fabricated devices show low IL (<1 dB) and high ER (>15 dB) over the measured wavelength range of 1460 to 1580 nm, which is consistent with the simulation results.

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