Proposal for a simple polarization converter based on integrated optical ion exchanged waveguide
Proposal for a simple polarization converter based on integrated optical ion exchanged waveguide
A simple, compact, low-cost electro-optic polarization converter based on a nematic liquid crystal (LC) sandwiched between two ion-exchanged glass channel waveguides is proposed. A three-dimensional (3D) fully-vectorial (FV) finite difference beam propagation method (FDBPM) is used to simulate this optical device. The performance of the proposed polarization converter is analyzed numerically at zero and 5 V applied voltage for the case of strong anchoring of LC molecules to the surface of the waveguide. The polarization conversion efficiency is ~65% at a wavelength of 1550 nm. The total length of the directional coupler structure based converter is only 724 µm.
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Wang, Pengfei, Brambilla, G., Semenova, Y., Wu, Qiang, Zheng, Jie and Farrell, G.
(2010)
Proposal for a simple polarization converter based on integrated optical ion exchanged waveguide.
9th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2010), Nanjing, China.
24 - 27 Oct 2010.
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(doi:10.1049/cp.2010.1246).
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Abstract
A simple, compact, low-cost electro-optic polarization converter based on a nematic liquid crystal (LC) sandwiched between two ion-exchanged glass channel waveguides is proposed. A three-dimensional (3D) fully-vectorial (FV) finite difference beam propagation method (FDBPM) is used to simulate this optical device. The performance of the proposed polarization converter is analyzed numerically at zero and 5 V applied voltage for the case of strong anchoring of LC molecules to the surface of the waveguide. The polarization conversion efficiency is ~65% at a wavelength of 1550 nm. The total length of the directional coupler structure based converter is only 724 µm.
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9th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2010), Nanjing, China, 2010-10-24 - 2010-10-27
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