title: Right-angle slot waveguide bends with high bending efficiency.
abstract: Two right-angle bends for nanoscale slot waveguides with high bending efficiency based on a corner mirror and different resonant cavities are presented, one with a triangular cavity and the other with a square cavity. Through two-dimensional parametric scanning of the position of the mirror and the dimension of the cavity, a maximum bending efficiency calculated using mode overlap integral (MOI) of 94.3% is achieved for the bend with the triangular cavity and 93.1% is achieved for the bend with the square cavity. Although they both have similar bending performance, the position of the mirror is different between the two cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
authors.forename: Changbao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Qun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van Keuren
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007909:Lenses; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*