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2D-Heterostructure Photonic Crystal Formation for On-Chip Polarization Division Multiplexing
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: Received: 25 July 2021 / Approved: 26 July 2021 / Online: 26 July 2021 (15:04:30 CEST)
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Kazanskiy, N.L.; Butt, M.A.; Khonina, S.N. 2D-Heterostructure Photonic Crystal Formation for On-Chip Polarization Division Multiplexing. Photonics 2021, 8, 313. Kazanskiy, N.L.; Butt, M.A.; Khonina, S.N. 2D-Heterostructure Photonic Crystal Formation for On-Chip Polarization Division Multiplexing. Photonics 2021, 8, 313.
Abstract
Herein, we offer a numerical study on the devising of a unique 2D-heterostructure Photonic crystal (PC) that can split two orthogonally polarized light waves. The analysis is performed via a two-dimensional finite element method (2D-FEM) by utilizing COMSOL Multiphysics software. The device consists of two discrete designs of PC formation. The first PC formation is optimized so that it permits both TE and TM-polarization of light to transmit through it. Whereas the second PC formation possesses a Photonic Bandgap (PBG) only for TE-polarized light. These two formations are combined at an angle of 45 degrees, resulting in a reflection of self-collimated TE-polarized light at an angle of 90 degrees owing to the PBG present in the second PC formation. While permitting the self-collimated TM-polarized light wave to travel uninterrupted. The proposed device has a small footprint of ~10.5 μm2 offering low transmission loss and high polarization extinction ratio which makes it an ideal candidate to be employed as an on-chip polarization division multiplexing system.
Keywords
Photonic crystal; polarizer; multiplexer; polarization extinction ratio; communication channels; heterostructure
Subject
Physical Sciences, Acoustics
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