Abstract
An ultra-compact and low-loss transverse-electric (TE)-pass polarizer is proposed by utilizing a hybrid plasmonic ridge waveguide structure on a silicon-on-insulator platform. Since the transmission of a plasmonic polarizer is greatly influenced by the interaction between the metal and the optical field, there is a large insertion loss (IL) in the polarizer based on a hybrid plasmonic waveguide. Here, the electric field distribution and the periodic coupling between the fundamental transverse magnetic mode and plasmonic mode are taken into consideration to decrease the IL and shorten the length of the device. For a 4.2μm-long polarizer, numerical simulations with the finite-differential-time-domain method show that it has a large extinction ratio (ER) of ∼29.5 dB with a low IL of 0.18dB at the central wavelength 1550nm. In addition, a more than 23dB ER is achieved across a wide bandwidth of 100nm.
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