Abstract
We present a detailed perturbation analysis of the recently proposed polarization splitting directional coupler configuration consisting of two interacting optical waveguides with a thin layer of metal between the two waveguides. We have carried out numerical calculations of extinction ratios by the approximate perturbation method and compared the results with those obtained by a more rigorous matrix method developed earlier by
A. K. Ghatak, et al.,
IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol. LT-5,
660 (
1987). We also studied the tolerances required for the device. We carried out calculations for gold and aluminum and have shown that the proposed device has extinction ratios of about −22 dB for gold and −31 dB for aluminum.
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