title: Integrated mode-evolution-based polarization splitter.
abstract: A mode-evolution-based polarization splitter suitable for high-index-contrast systems and directly integratable with a recently reported on-polarization rotator is described and its performance verified through both finite-difference time-domain and eigenmode expansion simulations. For a device length of 200 microm, greater than 22 dB of extinction is obtained across a 1.45-1.75-microm bandwidth.
authors.affiliation: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. mwatts@mit.edu
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Watts
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Haus
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Ippen