Integrated digital metamaterials enables ultra-compact optical diodes
Abstract
We applied nonlinear optimization to design integrated digital metamaterials in silicon for unidirectional energy flow. Two devices, one for each polarization state, were designed, fabricated, and characterized. Both devices offer comparable or higher transmission efficiencies and extinction ratios, are easier to fabricate, exhibit larger bandwidths and are more tolerant to fabrication errors, when compared to alternatives. Furthermore, each device footprint is only 3μm × 3μm, which is the smallest optical diode ever reported. To illustrate the versatility of digital metamaterials, we also designed a polarization-independent optical diode.
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- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Utah Nanofabrication Facility
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1184792
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0005959
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Optics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Shen, Bing, Polson, Randy, and Menon, Rajesh. Integrated digital metamaterials enables ultra-compact optical diodes. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.23.010847.
Shen, Bing, Polson, Randy, & Menon, Rajesh. Integrated digital metamaterials enables ultra-compact optical diodes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.010847
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title = {Integrated digital metamaterials enables ultra-compact optical diodes},
author = {Shen, Bing and Polson, Randy and Menon, Rajesh},
abstractNote = {We applied nonlinear optimization to design integrated digital metamaterials in silicon for unidirectional energy flow. Two devices, one for each polarization state, were designed, fabricated, and characterized. Both devices offer comparable or higher transmission efficiencies and extinction ratios, are easier to fabricate, exhibit larger bandwidths and are more tolerant to fabrication errors, when compared to alternatives. Furthermore, each device footprint is only 3μm × 3μm, which is the smallest optical diode ever reported. To illustrate the versatility of digital metamaterials, we also designed a polarization-independent optical diode.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.23.010847},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 8,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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Figure 1: Ultra-compact integrated optical diodes. (a) Geometry of the device for TE. Steadystate light intensity distribution in the (b) forward and (c) backward directions for TE (Media 1). (d) Geometry of the device for TM. Steady-state light intensity distributions in the (e) forward and (f) backward directions for TMmore »
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