Subwavelength metamaterial engineering for silicon photonics

Robert Halir; Alejandro Ortega-Moñux; Jordi Soler-Penades; José M. Luque-González; Dario Sarmiento-Merenguel; Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo; Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez; Jens Schmid; Dan-Xia Xu; Siegfried Janz; Jean Lapointe; Íñigo Molina-Fernández; Milos Nedeljkovic; Goran Z. Mashanovich; Pavel Cheben

doi:10.1117/12.2253727

20 February 2017 Subwavelength metamaterial engineering for silicon photonics

Robert Halir, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Jordi Soler-Penades, José M. Luque-González, Dario Sarmiento-Merenguel, Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo, Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Jens Schmid, Dan-Xia Xu, Siegfried Janz, Jean Lapointe, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Milos Nedeljkovic, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Pavel Cheben

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Proceedings Volume 10107, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XIX; 1010703 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253727
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Waveguides structured at the subwavelength scale frustrate diffraction and behave as optical metamaterials with controllable refractive index. These structures have found widespread applications in silicon photonics, ranging from sub-decibel efficiency fibre-chip couplers to spectrometers and polarization rotators. Here, we briey describe the design foundations for sub-wavelength waveguide devices, both in terms of analytic effective medium approximations, as well as through rigorous Floch-Bloquet mode simulation. We then focus on two novel structures that exemplify the use of subwavelength waveguides: mid-infrared waveguides and ultra-broadband beamsplitters.

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Robert Halir, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Jordi Soler-Penades, José M. Luque-González, Dario Sarmiento-Merenguel, Alejandro Sánchez-Postigo, Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Jens Schmid, Dan-Xia Xu, Siegfried Janz, Jean Lapointe, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Milos Nedeljkovic, Goran Z. Mashanovich, and Pavel Cheben "Subwavelength metamaterial engineering for silicon photonics", Proc. SPIE 10107, Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XIX, 1010703 (20 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253727

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