Spectrally narrow polarisation conversion in a slow-light photonic crystal waveguide

Abstract

A narrow-band (3 dB bandpass < 2 nm) transmission notch based on polarisation conversion within a SOI photonic crystal waveguide is demonstrated. Signal contrast between quasi-TE and TM eigenstates exceeding 40 dB is achieved. Further, multiple resonant wavelength coupling between the two eigenstates is also observed.

Keywords

• integrated optics
• polarisation
• soi
• silicon
• photonics