Abstract

Hybrid plasmonic waveguides consisting of a metal plane separated from a high-index medium by a low-index spacer have recently attracted much interest. Here we show that, by suitably choosing the dimensions and material properties of the hybrid waveguide, a very compact and broadband TE-pass polarizer can be implemented. Finite-difference time-domain simulation indicates that the proposed device can provide large extinction ratio with low insertion loss for the TE mode.

©2012 Optical Society of America

Compact hybrid TM-pass polarizer for silicon-on-insulator platform

Muhammad Alam, J. Stewart Aitchsion, and Mohammad Mojahedi
Appl. Opt. 50(15) 2294-2298 (2011)

Experimental demonstration of a hybrid plasmonic transverse electric pass polarizer for a silicon-on-insulator platform

X. Sun, M. Z. Alam, S. J. Wagner, J. S. Aitchison, and M. Mojahedi
Opt. Lett. 37(23) 4814-4816 (2012)

Polarization-independent hybrid plasmonic coupler for a silicon on insulator platform

M. Z. Alam, J. S. Aitchison, and M. Mojahedi
Opt. Lett. 37(16) 3417-3419 (2012)

Demonstration of an on-chip TE-pass polarizer using a silicon hybrid plasmonic grating

Bowen Bai, Fenghe Yang, and Zhiping Zhou
Photon. Res. 7(3) 289-293 (2019)

CMOS compatible horizontal nanoplasmonic slot waveguides TE-pass polarizer on silicon-on-insulator platform

Ying Huang, Shiyang Zhu, Huijuan Zhang, Tsung-Yang Liow, and Guo-Qiang Lo
Opt. Express 21(10) 12790-12796 (2013)