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Ultra‐broadband nanophotonic beamsplitter using an anisotropic sub‐wavelength metamaterial
Authors:Robert Halir  Pavel Cheben  Jos Manuel Luque‐Gonzlez  Jose Darío Sarmiento‐Merenguel  Jens H Schmid  Gonzalo Wangüemert‐Prez  Dan‐Xia Xu  Shurui Wang  Alejandro Ortega‐Moux  Íigo Molina‐Fernndez
Abstract:Nanophotonic beamsplitters are fundamental building blocks in integrated optics, with applications ranging from high speed telecom receivers to biological sensors and quantum splitters. While high‐performance multiport beamsplitters have been demonstrated in several material platforms using multimode interference couplers, their operation bandwidth remains fundamentally limited. Here, we leverage the inherent anisotropy and dispersion of a sub‐wavelength structured photonic metamaterial to demonstrate ultra‐broadband integrated beamsplitting. Our device, which is three times more compact than its conventional counterpart, can achieve high‐performance operation over an unprecedented 500 nm design bandwidth exceeding all optical communication bands combined, and making it one of the most broadband silicon photonics components reported to date. Our demonstration paves the way toward nanophotonic waveguide components with ultra‐broadband operation for next generation integrated photonic systems.
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Keywords:anisotropy  broadband  multimode interference  silicon photonics
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