Unidirectional transmission of funnel-shaped waveguide with complete bandgap

Zhi Wen-Qiang; Fei Hong-Ming; Han Yu-Hui; Wu Min; Zhang Ming-Da; Liu Xin; Cao Bin-Zhao; Yang Yi-Biao

doi:10.7498/aps.71.20211299

Abstract

It will be a future trend to apply quantum photonic technology to communication technology and information processing. One of major developing directions of quantum photonic technology is the miniaturization and on-chip integration. Like the diodes in integrated electric circuitry, optical unidirectional transmitter devices (UTDs) play an important role in processing the quantum information and also represent the main components of integrated optical devices. Thus, the design of UTDs has become one of the research hotspots. With photonic bandgap and localization characteristics, as well as easy micro-nano scaled integration, the photonic crystals (PCs) are often preferred when used to develop micro-nano integrated optical devices. At present, the common methods of achieving UTD with photonic crystals include directional bandgap mismatch, asymmetrical coupling by a micro-cavity, odd-even mode conversion, total reflection of photonic crystals with grating and photonic crystal heterostructure, etc. However, these optical unidirectional transmitters gained through the above methods generally have a low forward transmission, narrow working band, complex structure, etc. In the paper a novel method of UTD is put forward based on photonic crystal and a UTD of funnel-shaped waveguide is designed. The design of the device is divided into two parts: optimal funnel waveguide design and optimal point defect design. The band structure of TE polarized photonic crystal is calculated by R-soft. A triangular lattice circular air hole photonic crystal with complete photonic band gap is used as the initial structure and line defects are introduced to form a funnel-shaped waveguide structure (FSWS). The FSWS consists of the first waveguide W1, the second waveguide W2 and a funnel cavity. The funnel cavity is shaped like a funnel and located at the coupling between W1 and W2. Owing to the unique characteristics of the waveguide, the light wave transmission will be localized in the waveguide, which is conducive to improving the forward transmission. The influence of width variation of W2 with forward and backward incident light are analyzed by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, and W2 is selected as a waveguide formed by removing 11 rows of air holes. The FSWS achieves the initial asymmetric transmission, while the backward transmission remains high. Further studies are conducted to introduce four types of point defects to suppress the backward transmittance. The point defects refer to moving one or two air holes. In the work the FDTD is also used to calculate four kinds of point defect backward transmittance spectra and optimize the positions of point defects. Finally, it is found that when the optimal point defect mode is type I and d = 5a, the forward transmission (T_f) and transmission contrast (C ) at 1550 nm are 0.716 and 0.929, respectively. Working bandwidth (B) can be increased up to 111 nm (1501–1612 nm). By mode analysis, it is found that the point defect introduces mode mismatch between W1 and W2, by converting the fundamental mode in W2 into high-order modes. Thus, the back-propagating light waves in W2 cannot effectively couple into W1, resulting in complete blockage of backward propagation. In addition, the structure is made of silicon based air hole photonic crystal. The 2D air-hole PC slab is mature and even compatible with conventional complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing. The designed UTD is easy to implement, and has the advantages of simplicity and high unidirectional transmission characteristics. Therefore, it can provide a new solution for UTDs with higher requirements for integrated optical path at present.

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1.
Department of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

Corresponding author: Fei Hong-Ming, feihongming@tyut.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11904255, 11704275), the Key R&D Program of Shanxi Province (International Cooperation), China (Grant No. 201903D421052), and the Applied Based Research Program of Shanxi Province (Youth Fund), China (Grant No. 201901D211070)

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图 1 漏斗型光波导及其传输特性　(a) 漏斗型光波导结构, a = 470 nm为晶格常数, 标为红色的空气孔为线缺陷位置, 移除红色空气孔后形成漏斗型光波导; (b) 光子晶体TE模能带结构图, 其中红色阴影部分为完全禁带部分; W2宽度变化时的正向光波(c)与反向光波(d)传输透射谱, W2宽度分别取移除5行、7行、9行、11行和13行空气孔; (e)正反向光波入射时漏斗型光波导在1550 nm处的场强分布

Figure 1. Funnel waveguide and transmission characteristics. (a) The structure of funnel waveguide. a = 470 nm is the lattice constant. The air hole marked red is the location of line defect. Remove the red air hole to form a funnel-shaped waveguide. (b) The band structure of the PC. The red shaded area represents the fully photonic bandgap. The transmittance spectra of light waves forward (c) and backward (d) transmit with W2 width-varying. For varying the width of W2, air holes in rows 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 are removed respectively. (e) The electric field intensity distribution diagrams at 1550 nm in funnel-shaped waveguide.

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图 2 点缺陷类型及初始位置与场强图, I型(a)、II型(c)、III型(e)和IV型(g)点缺陷及初始位置. 红色圆形表示拟移除空气孔, 白色圆形表示保留的空气孔所形成的点缺陷; 漏斗型光波导中引入I型(b)、II型(d)、III型(f)和IV型(h)点缺陷后正反向光波入射时在1550 nm处的场强分布

Figure 2. Type and initial position of point defects and the electric field intensity distribution diagrams: The diagrams of type I (a), type II (c), type III (e), type IV (g) of point defects with initial location. The red circle represents the air holes to be removed, and the white circle represents the point defect formed by the retained air holes. The electric field intensity distribution diagrams at 1550 nm in funnel-shaped waveguide with a type I (b), type II (d), type III (f), type IV (h) point defect.

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图 3 I型(a)、II型(c)、III型(e)和IV (g)型点缺陷位置移动时的反向光波入射透射谱, 虚线与实线交汇处为点缺陷移动至各位置在1550 nm处的反向透射率值; I型(b)、II型(d)、III型(f)和IV (h)型点缺陷移动至各位置在1550 nm处的T_f(红色线)、T_b(紫色线)、C (蓝色线)和B (青色线)点线图

Figure 3. Transmittance spectra of light waves backward transmit with type I (a), type II (c), type III (e), type IV (g) defect position movement. The intersection of the dotted line and the solid line is the backward transmittance value at 1550 nm with the point defect movement. The point plot of T_f (red line), T_b (purple line), C (cyan line) and B (orange line) at 1550 nm with type I (b), type II (d), type III (f), type IV (h) point defect position movement.

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图 4 结构与性能　(a) 本文设计的可实现单向传输的结构示意图, W2宽度为移除11行空气孔, 点缺陷为保留I型第六个空气孔; (b) 单向传输器件透射光谱图(红色线为T_f、紫色线为T_b、蓝色线为C ); (c) TE偏振的正反向入射光在1550 nm处的电场强度分布

Figure 4. Structure and performance. (a) Schematic drawing of funnel-shaped wave-guide of the realizable unidirectional transmission in this paper. The width of W2 is gained after removing 11 rows of air holes, and the point defect is to retain the sixth air hole of Type I. (b) The transmittance spectra of the unidirectional transmission device (The red line is T_f, the purple line is T_b, and the blue line is C ). (c) The electric field intensity distribution diagrams of forward incident light and backward incident light of TE polarization at the wavelength of 1550 nm.

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表 1 在1550 nm处四种类型点缺陷最优位置单向传输性能

Table 1. Optimal location unidirectional transmission performance of four types of point defects at 1550 nm.

点缺陷类型 T_f T_b C B/nm

I型, d = 5a 0.716 0.026 0.929 111

II型, d = 0 0.702 0.057 0.851 95

III型, d = 1a 0.657 0.051 0.856 116

IV型, d = 2a 0.670 0.043 0.878 110

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[6]	Li J, Ye H, Yu Z Y, Liu Y M 2017 Opt. Express 25 19129 Google Scholar
[7]	Liu D Y, Yao L F, Zhai X M, Li M H, Dong J F 2014 Appl. Phys. A 116 9 Google Scholar
[8]	Ahmet O, Hasan K, Hamza K 2018 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 35 2111
[9]	Ahmet O, Nazmi Y, Hasan K, Hamza K 2019 J. Opt. 21 055104 Google Scholar
[10]	Li S, Huang L R, Ling Y H, Liu W B, Ba C F, Li H H 2019 Sci. Rep. 9 17117 Google Scholar
[11]	Liu H, Zhang Y Z, Chen C, Bai B B, Zhang X, Zhang H C, Shao Q Y, Wu B, Zhao B L 2021 Opt. Laser Technol. 140 107033 Google Scholar
[12]	Hadi R, Mohammad S, Yousef S K 2018 J. Opt. Commun. 39 375 Google Scholar
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