RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Polarization independent 2×2 multimode interference coupler with bricked subwavelength metamaterial
A1 Pérez-Armenta, Carlos
A1 Ortega-Moñux, Alejandro
A1 Luque-González, José Manuel
A1 Halir, Robert
A1 Reyes Iglesias, Pedro José
A1 Schmid, Jens H.
A1 Cheben, Pavel
A1 Molina-Fernández, Íñigo
A1 Wanguemert-Pérez, Juan Gonzalo
K1 Telecomunicaciones - Equipos y material
K1 Circuitos integrados
AB The silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform enables high integration density in photonic integrated circuits while maintaining compatibility with CMOS fabrication processes. Nevertheless, its inherently high modal birefringence hinders the development of polarization-insensitive devices. The dispersion and anisotropy engineering leveraging subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials makes possible the development of polarization agnostic waveguide components. In this work we build upon the bricked SWG metamaterial nanostructures to design a polarization independent 2×2 multimode interference (MMI) coupler for the 220 nm SOI platform, operating in the telecom O-band. The designed device exhibits a 160 nm bandwidth with excess loss, polarization dependent loss and imbalance below 1 dB and phase error lower than 5°.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25380
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25380
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PID2019-106747RB-I00), Junta de Andalucía (P18-RT-1453, UMA20-FEDERJA-158), Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades (FPU16/06762, FPU19/02408) and Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026