Analysis of TM-pass reflection mode optical polarizer using method of lines

Author

Khan, M. Ajmal ; Jamid, Hussain A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

555

Abstract

A TM-pass polarizer is proposed and analyzed. This polarizer reflects TM polarized waves with low-loss, while the reflected TE polarized waves are highly attenuated. Thus, it is called a reflection mode TM-pass polarizer. The proposed polarizer is realized by adding corrugations in cascade with a four layer high-index metal-clad waveguide. The reflection spectra of device are calculated in order to study the effect of the various parameters of the device. This includes variation of the length of the metalclad section, the thickness of the high index buffer layer, the grating groove depth and the total number of grooves in the corrugated section of the device. The corrugated section of the polarizer causes it to act as a wavelength filter. The device is analyzed numerically using the Method of Lines.

Keywords

light reflection; method of lines; optical polarisers; optical waveguide filters; optical waveguide theory; TM-pass polarizer; corrugations in cascade; four layer metal-clad waveguide; grating groove depth; high-index waveguide; method of lines; perfectly matched layer; reflection mode optical polarizer; total number of grooves; wavelength filter; Buffer layers; Gratings; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Propagation constant; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8163-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301845

Filename

1301845