Light: Science & Applications (Jul 2022)

On-chip beam rotators, adiabatic mode converters, and waveplates through low-loss waveguides with variable cross-sections

  • Bangshan Sun,
  • Fyodor Morozko,
  • Patrick S. Salter,
  • Simon Moser,
  • Zhikai Pong,
  • Raj B. Patel,
  • Ian A. Walmsley,
  • Mohan Wang,
  • Adir Hazan,
  • Nicolas Barré,
  • Alexander Jesacher,
  • Julian Fells,
  • Chao He,
  • Aviad Katiyi,
  • Zhen-Nan Tian,
  • Alina Karabchevsky,
  • Martin J. Booth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00907-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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A new technology enables fast production of waveguide (SPIM-WG) based high performance optical devices with very low loss, precisely organized refractive index, arbitrarily variable cross-sections and high coupling efficiency.