Low loss, high extinction ration and ultra-compact plasmonic polarization beam splitter

Youqiao Ma; Gerald Farrell; Yuliya Semenova; Hau Ping Chan; Hongzhou Zhang; Qiang Wu

doi:10.1109/LPT.2014.2302354

Low loss, high extinction ration and ultra-compact plasmonic polarization beam splitter

Youqiao Ma, Gerald Farrell, Yuliya Semenova, Hau Ping Chan, Hongzhou Zhang, Qiang Wu

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In this letter, an ultra-compact plasmonic polarization beam splitter (PBS) is proposed and investigated by numerical simulations using the finite element method. The PBS is based on a three-core plasmonic directional coupler, which uses a long range surface plasmon polaritons waveguide as the middle waveguide to achieve polarization selective coupling. The calculations show that with proper structural parameters, the PBS with low insertion losses of 0.17 and 0.25 dB for TE and TM polarizations, respectively, and high extinction ratios of 20.17 and 19.83 dB for TE and TM polarizations, respectively, can be realized at a telecommunication wavelength of 1550 nm. Furthermore, an insertion loss 14~dB can be realized across the entire C-band for both TE and TM polarizations. © 2014 IEEE.

Original language	English
Article number	6722901
Pages (from-to)	660-663
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	26
Issue number	7
Online published	24 Jan 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2014.2302354
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2014

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polarization beam splitter
Surface plasmon polaritons

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