A plasmonic splitter with flexible power splitting ratio at optical fiber communication waveband

Author: Zhong Ting   Lang Peilin   Chen Xi   Duan Gaoyan   Yu Li   Xiao Jinghua  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1286-0050|68|1|10501-10501

ISSN: 1286-0042

Source: EPJ Applied Physics (The), Vol.68, Iss.1, 2014-10, pp. : 10501-10501

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Abstract

We present a plasmonic splitter based on metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure. This splitter consists of two parallel waveguides and two resonators. One resonator is a ring tangentially connected with the two waveguides, and the other resonator is a semi-ring directly connected to the lower waveguide. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is used to numerically analyze the transmittance spectra of the splitter. The results show that this splitter is a beam splitter when the wavelength of the incident wave is around 1355 nm or 1553 nm. This splitter can also be regarded as a power splitter. To our knowledge, this is the first designed surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) splitter which utilize both the communication wavelengths at around 1310 nm and 1550 nm. This characteristics show potential applications in future optical circuits.