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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 3777-3786Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.003777
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- CMC Microsystems
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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We demonstrate various silicon-on-insulator polarization management structures based on a polarization rotator-splitter that uses a bi-level taper TM0-TE1 mode converter. The designs are fully compatible with standard active silicon photonics platforms with no new levels required and were implemented in the IME baseline and IME-OpSIS silicon photonics processes. We demonstrate a polarization rotator-splitter with polarization crosstalk < -13 dB over a bandwidth of 50 nm. Then, we improve the crosstalk to < -22 dB over a bandwidth of 80 nm by integrating the polarization rotator-splitter with directional coupler polarization filters. Finally, we demonstrate a polarization controller by integrating the polarization rotator-splitters with directional couplers, thermal tuners, and PIN diode phase shifters. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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