High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm

A high-contrast and compact wavelength diplexer is presented for conventional 1550 nm and emerging 2000 nm based on a subwavelength-grating (SWG) coupler. The SWG silicon waveguide thoroughly blocks the light propagation around 1550 nm but fully supports 2000 nm (extinction ratio: 43.11 dB). This gr...

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Main Authors: Danfeng Zhu, Han Ye, Yumin Liu, Jing Li, Zhongyuan Yu
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Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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author Danfeng Zhu
Han Ye
Yumin Liu
Jing Li
Zhongyuan Yu
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Han Ye
Yumin Liu
Jing Li
Zhongyuan Yu
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description A high-contrast and compact wavelength diplexer is presented for conventional 1550 nm and emerging 2000 nm based on a subwavelength-grating (SWG) coupler. The SWG silicon waveguide thoroughly blocks the light propagation around 1550 nm but fully supports 2000 nm (extinction ratio: 43.11 dB). This grating type anisotropic metamaterial not only efficiently reduces the coupling length but also expands the operational bandwidth. Simulated by 3D finite-difference time-domain method, the proposed diplexer possesses a remarkably low insertion loss and a high contrast of 25.24 (31.7) dB at 1550 (2000) nm. The operational bandwidth of 200 (108) nm is achieved with contrast over 15 dB and insertion loss below 0.22 dB. The footprint of diplexer is only 5.27 μm × 11.85 μm. Moreover, such design has the scalability by simply tuning the geometrical parameters of SWG.
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spelling doaj-art-beacec6701834ddc81a264a7126bbca12025-08-20T02:42:01ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552021-01-0113211010.1109/JPHOT.2021.30619669363531High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nmDanfeng Zhu0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9519-8424Han Ye1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-4781Yumin Liu2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5978-8953Jing Li3Zhongyuan Yu4State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ChinaA high-contrast and compact wavelength diplexer is presented for conventional 1550 nm and emerging 2000 nm based on a subwavelength-grating (SWG) coupler. The SWG silicon waveguide thoroughly blocks the light propagation around 1550 nm but fully supports 2000 nm (extinction ratio: 43.11 dB). This grating type anisotropic metamaterial not only efficiently reduces the coupling length but also expands the operational bandwidth. Simulated by 3D finite-difference time-domain method, the proposed diplexer possesses a remarkably low insertion loss and a high contrast of 25.24 (31.7) dB at 1550 (2000) nm. The operational bandwidth of 200 (108) nm is achieved with contrast over 15 dB and insertion loss below 0.22 dB. The footprint of diplexer is only 5.27 μm × 11.85 μm. Moreover, such design has the scalability by simply tuning the geometrical parameters of SWG.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363531/Integrated opticswavelength diplexersubwavelength grating2 μm-waveband applications
spellingShingle Danfeng Zhu
Han Ye
Yumin Liu
Jing Li
Zhongyuan Yu
High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm
IEEE Photonics Journal
Integrated optics
wavelength diplexer
subwavelength grating
2 μm-waveband applications
title High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm
title_full High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm
title_fullStr High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm
title_full_unstemmed High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm
title_short High-Contrast and Compact Integrated Wavelength Diplexer Based on Subwavelength Grating Anisotropic Metamaterial for 1550/2000 nm
title_sort high contrast and compact integrated wavelength diplexer based on subwavelength grating anisotropic metamaterial for 1550 x002f 2000 x00a0 nm
topic Integrated optics
wavelength diplexer
subwavelength grating
2 μm-waveband applications
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363531/
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