Highly dispersive slot waveguides

Opt Express. 2009 Apr 27;17(9):7095-101. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.007095.

Abstract

We propose a slot-waveguide with high dispersion, in which a slot waveguide is coupled to a strip waveguide. A negative dispersion of up to -181520 ps/nm/km is obtained due to a strong interaction of the slot and strip modes. A flat and large dispersion is achievable by cascading the dispersive slot-waveguides with varied waveguide thickness or width for dispersion compensation and signal processing applications. We show - 31300 ps/nm/km dispersion over 147-nm bandwidth with <1% variance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Light
  • Optical Devices*
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Scattering, Radiation
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Transducers*