Compact and silicon-on-insulator-compatible hybrid plasmonic TE-pass polarizer

M Z Alam; J Stewart Aitchison; M Mojahedi

doi:10.1364/OL.37.000055

Compact and silicon-on-insulator-compatible hybrid plasmonic TE-pass polarizer

Opt Lett. 2012 Jan 1;37(1):55-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.000055.

Authors

M Z Alam¹, J Stewart Aitchison, M Mojahedi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3G4, Canada. malam@waves.utoronto.ca

PMID: 22212789
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.000055

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.