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Abstract 2d Photonic Crystal ( Pc ) Based Power Splitter

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Abstract—2D photonic crystal (PC) based power splitter with 60° bend corners is designed and analyzed. The splitting efficiency at its bends has been improved by encapsulating rectangular defect, thereby increasing the power transmission of about 98.1%. A simple antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW-B) is a polarization insensitive wave guiding, which utilizes antiresonance reflection and provides better coupling when compared with conventional wave guiding. We performed three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3-D FDTD) simulation to calculate the power transmission of Y-splitter with ARROW-B which is about 93.3%. The PC thus designed can provides good sharp-bend ability and power-split ability.

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Light propagation in photonic crystal waveguide (PCW) is possible in terms of artificially induced defect region [3], However, by incorporating defects in the waveguide, certain wavelengths belong to the band gap can propagate strictly within the defects. The defects can be in the form of line defects to achieve photonic crystal waveguides or point defects producing optical cavities. We have presented an efficient power splitter, which divides the propagating optical power equally between the two branching line defects.

Whereas, an important crisis in power splitter is that how light get efficiently transmitted via the bend corners. For that various methods have been proposed i. Providing row of pores with smaller diameter ii. Coupled cavity design and iii. Three pore-rows wide defect [2]. Although these techniques can significantly increase the splitting efficiency, complicated time-consuming computation is needed, consequently an alternate method is proposed to improve the power split ability by incorporating rectangular capsule shaped defect at its bends [4]. These defects with higher refractive index contrast provide better reflection as compared to that of other methods mentioned. Besides the main source of propagation losses in 2D PCW has been believed to be the guided modes position above the light line, since modes above the light line can easily

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