Broadband all-silicon hybrid plasmonic TM-pass polarizer using bend waveguides

Autor: Md Ghulam Saber, David V. Plant, Nicolás Abadía
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: AIP Advances, Vol 11, Iss 4, Pp 045219-045219-8 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2158-3226
DOI: 10.1063/5.0044490
Popis: A complementary–metal–oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible all-silicon TM-pass polarizer using plasmonic bends is proposed. To simplify the fabrication and be compatible with the CMOS process, we employ only two materials: silicon and silicon dioxide. Highly doped silicon is used to support the plasmons. We obtain an extinction ratio and an insertion loss of 45.4 and 1.7 dB, respectively, at 1550 nm and a maximum extinction ratio of 58 dB. This is the highest reported extinction ratio for a TM-pass polarizer to the best of our knowledge. Furthermore, we achieved >20 dB of extinction ratio and
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