Abstract
We present theoretical and experimental results of a polarization splitter device that consists of a photonic crystal (PhC) slab, which exhibits a large reflection coefficient for TE and a high transmission coefficient for TM polarization. The slab is embedded in a PhC tile operating in the self-collimation mode. Embedding the polarization-discriminating slab in a PhC with identical lattice symmetry suppresses the in.-plane diffraction losses at the PhC-non-PhC interface. The optimization of the PhC-non-PhC interface is thereby decoupled from the optimization of the polarizing function. Transmissions as high as 35% for TM- and 30% for TE-polarized light are reported. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 530-532 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 32 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2007 |
Keywords
- NEGATIVE REFRACTION
- WAVE-GUIDE
- DESIGN