Modeling a 1 × 8 MMI green light power splitter based on gallium-nitride slot waveguide structure

  • Lev Nikolaevsky
  • , Tal Shchori
  • , Dror Malka

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Abstract

The advance progress of the visible light communication field requires new and powerful components that enable high speed light transmission with low losses. Therefore, we propose a novel design for a × 8 green light power splitter based on the multimode interference coupler in a gallium-nitride- silicon-oxide slot waveguide structure. Simulation results show that after a propagation length of 16.55μ text{m} the energy of the green light signal (536 nm) is split into eight output beams with equal energy and low transmission losses of 0.11 dB. In addition, the splitter operates in the visible light spectrum from 460 to 670 nm. Therefore, this splitter can increase performance in network communication system that work in the visible light range.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)720-723
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume30
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • FV-BPM
  • MMI
  • VLC
  • optical power splitter
  • slot waveguide

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