Long-Range Air-Hole Assisted Subwavelength Waveguides: Towards Large-Scale Photonic Integration

Abstract:

A novel air-hole assisted metaldielectricmetal (MDM) waveguide has been proposed and numerically demonstrated. It has excellent characters including subwavelength mode confinement, chip-scale long propagation length, highly efficient direct bends with compact footprints, and high waveguide isolation with tiny center-to-center separation at the wavelength of 1.55 μm. To prove that the hybrid waveguide could be an ideal candidate for large-scale photonic integration, its characters are all compared with the silicon, photonic crystal, surface plasmon polariton based waveguides.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 901)
• Pages: 65-69
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.901.65
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Wen Zhou, Xu Guang Huang*
• Keywords: Integrated Optics, Large-Scale Photonic Integration, Optical Waveguides

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