Abstract

We propose a high fabrication tolerance and broadband silicon polarization beam splitter (PBS) by cascading point-symmetric 3-dB couplers designed using fast quasiadiabatic dynamics (FAQUAD). The FAQUAD strategy only requires access to a single control parameter, and it can shorten the conventional adiabatic designs, maintaining the broadband characteristic and robustness to fabrication errors. The 3-dB FAQUAD coupler for the TM0 mode is made invisible to the TE0 mode due to a large difference in their adiabaticity parameters. Moreover, the system of cascaded point-symmetric devices further enhances the bandwidth and fabrication tolerance of the FAQUAD PBS. The total length of the FAQUAD PBS is 89.4 µm. We find that the FAQUAD PBS exhibits > 10 dB extinction ratio (ER) for the input TM0 mode and the input TE0 mode over a bandwidth of 240 nm and 260 nm, with excess losses below 0.4 dB and 0.021 dB, respectively. The PBS also exhibits excellent fabrication tolerance, showing an ER > 24 dB and an excess loss 16.8 dB and an excess loss 15.3 dB and excess loss 15.9 dB and excess loss < 0.015 dB for the TE0 mode are observed.

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