Abstract

The lithium niobate on an insulator (LNOI) platform has greatly advanced the development of integrated photonics recently, where efficient polarization management components are indispensable. In this work, we propose a highly efficient and tunable polarization rotator based on the LNOI platform and the low-loss optical phase change material antimony triselenide (${\rm{S}}{{\rm{b}}_2}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{e}}_3}$). The key polarization rotation region is formed by a LNOI waveguide with a cross section of the double trapezoidal shape and a ${\rm{S}}{{\rm{b}}_2}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{e}}_3}$ layer deposited atop the LNOI waveguide in an asymmetrical way, where an isolating layer of silicon dioxide is sandwiched between them to reduce the material absorption loss. Based on such a structure, we have achieved the efficient polarization rotation in a length of only 17.7 µm, where the polarization conversion efficiency and insertion loss are 99.6% (99.2%) and 0.38 dB (0.4 dB) for the trans-electric (TE)-to-trans-magnetic (TM) rotation. If we further change the phase state of the ${\rm{S}}{{\rm{b}}_2}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{e}}_3}$ layer, other polarization rotation angles besides 90° can also be obtained for the same device, revealing a tunable function. We believe that the proposed device and design scheme could offer an efficient method for realizing the polarization management on the LNOI platform.

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