Abstract
Metasurfaces have found broad applicability in free-space optics, while its potential to tailor guided waves remains barely explored. By synergizing the Jones matrix model with generalized Snell’s law under the phase-matching condition, we propose a universal design strategy for versatile on-chip mode-selective coupling with polarization sensitivity, multiple working wavelengths, and high efficiency concurrently. The coupling direction, operation frequency, and excited mode type can be designed at will for arbitrary incident polarizations, outperforming previous technology that only works for specific polarizations and lacks versatile mode controllability. Here, using silicon-nanoantenna-patterned silicon-nitride photonic waveguides, we numerically demonstrate a set of chip-scale optical couplers around 1.55 μm, including mode-selective directional couplers with high coupling efficiency over 57% and directivity about 23 dB. Polarization and wavelength demultiplexer scenarios are also proposed with 67% maximum efficiency and an extinction ratio of 20 dB. Moreover, a chip-integrated twisted light generator, coupling free-space linear polarization into an optical vortex carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), is also reported to validate the mode-control flexibility. This comprehensive method may motivate compact wavelength/polarization (de)multiplexers, multifunctional mode converters, on-chip OAM generators for photonic integrated circuits, and high-speed optical telecommunications.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Recent advancements in photonic integrated circuits have ushered emerging applications in optical information processing [1,2], lab-on-a-chip sensing systems [3,4], integrated quantum photonics [5,6], and high-speed chip-scale optical interconnects with low power consumption [7,8]. As an indispensable component that wires external light sources into photonic chips, optical couplers are of crucial significance [9]. While the coupling efficiency is an important figure of merit in these systems, it is also highly desired to achieve directional coupling with flexible wavelength, polarization, and even mode selectivity for both classic and quantum scenarios [10,11]. For instance, multiplexers/demultiplexers in optical communication systems employing the wavelength-division multiplexing technique [12]. However, conventional optical components to realize the abovementioned functionalities are generally bulky, which severely hinders further integration and practicality [13–15].
As an array of elaborately engineered optical scatterers with subwavelength spacing and spatially varying geometric parameters [16,17], the metasurface has found fertile soil in numerous applications, such as planar optics [18], high-efficiency holograms [19], ultrathin cloak [20], color display [21–23], and emerging fields in nonlinear [24,25] and topological photonics [26]. In contrast, their excellent potentiality to manipulate guided electromagnetic waves is not fully exploited. By incorporating the metasurface with the most fundamental building block of optical waveguides, the aforementioned coupling issues in integrated photonics can be addressed [17]. The flexibility and configurability harvested from optical antenna arrays can enable novel waveguide couplers with a compact footprint and versatile functionalities [27].
Previous similar research started from the directional excitation of surface plasmon polaritons using the gradient-index metasurface [28,29]. In terms of guided waves, plasmonic antennas are deployed to realize directional waveguide coupling [17,30–35]. However, metal antennas suffer from intrinsically high Ohmic loss [27]. The proposed dipole interference model [31–33] can design double-antennas or small arrays, but encounters challenges in upscaling to realize sophisticated optical systems. Recently, the gradient metasurface was applied to realize directional coupling [17,36,37], using either propagation [33,34] or geometric phase metasurface [36,37]. However, for designs adopting propagation phase concept [38–40], one given array only works for one specific linear polarization [31–33]. In contrast, the geometric phase (or Pancharatnam–Berry phase) metasurface [41,42] is solely applicable for circular polarizations, where an unconfigurable conjugate phase profile is always accompanied for the other orthogonal circular polarization [33,34] and the excited waveguide mode type cannot be controlled at will. As most of the devices in silicon- and silicon-nitride photonics have polarization-sensitive performance [1,7], mode-controllable waveguiding is highly favorable. Nevertheless, a universal design model working for arbitrary incident polarizations and that can simultaneously achieve coupled-mode selectivity with multiple working wavelengths is still elusive.
Here we propose a comprehensive design method with fabrication robustness to address versatile on-chip coupling and mode conversion applications in photonic integrated circuits, by synergizing the Jones matrix model [38–41,43] with generalized Snell’s law [18] under the phase-matching condition for dielectric nanoantennas. Accommodating both propagation and geometric phase metasurface, the coupling direction, operation wavelength, and excited mode type can be designed at will for arbitrary incident polarizations. We apply silicon (Si) nanoantennas-patterned silicon-nitride (SiN) optical waveguides around the telecommunication wavelength of 1.55 μm to mitigate loss [44]. The high-index contrast dielectric here is also favorable for efficient antenna excitation. Representative design scenarios are numerically demonstrated, such as mode-selective chip-integrated directional couplers (with high coupling efficiency over 57% and directivity about 23 dB), versatile polarization demultiplexers and wavelength routers (with maximum coupling efficiency around 67% and extinction ratio of 20 dB for arbitrary incident polarization), and broadband chip-scale twisted light generators [that directly couple incident linear polarizations into the optical vortex carrying configurable orbital angular momentum (OAM) topological charge ]. Compared with previous similar works without applying the phase-matching condition [32,33,41], an at least 10-fold enhancement in coupling efficiency is numerically validated here. Moreover, in this work not only the fundamental and modes [41] but also the selective-excitation of desired high-order waveguide modes (for example, , , , and ) with high mode purity is systematically investigated. Our method can also outperform former literature (only applicable for circular polarizations) [36,37], where the excited waveguide mode type cannot be arbitrarily controlled [36] or the directionality and high efficiency are not simultaneously achieved at the same operation wavelength [37]. The influence of the coupling condition and device fabrication error is also discussed. This universal design method may open new possibilities for further chip-scale photonic applications, such as integrated polarization (de)multiplexers, light routers, multifunctional mode converters, and on-chip configurable vortex beam generators.
2. FUNDAMENTALS AND DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Acting as form-birefringence elements [43], dielectric nanoantennas can impart a configurable, polarization- and wavelength-dependent phase to incident electromagnetic wave and simultaneously alter the polarization state of transmitted light [40,45,46]. A periodic antenna array (metasurface) functioning like a birefringent wave plate can be modeled by a Jones matrix [38–41], which is unitary and symmetric (see Appendix A for details) and thus can be decomposed into eigenvalues (or eigenphases and ) determined by antenna geometry and eigenvectors depending on the antenna’s rotation angle . Therefore, for any arbitrary unit incident and transmitted polarization vectors, we can always find a Jones matrix to enable the mapping guaranteed by the matrix theorem [40,41].
For high-index optical antennas like Si used here, the electromagnetic energy is mainly confined inside the antenna, while the impact from adjacent antennas is much weaker and negligible [40,41,47]. Consequently, we can divide an array into pixels modeled by different Jones matrices . This model unifies propagation and geometric phase metasurfaces [40,41]. Both the geometric parameters and rotation angle of the antenna pixels are engineered to achieve complete control over phase and polarization of the transmitted light for arbitrary incident polarizations [see Fig. 1(a)].
Considering the generalized Snell’s law of transmission [48], for an optical waveguide patterned with a gradient metasurface, one specific waveguide mode can be selectively excited if the phase-matching condition is satisfied [17]:
where and are the refractive indices of transmitted and incident medium [48]. We have the effective mode index for guided waves [12] and incident angle under normal incidence [36,37] [shown as Fig. 1(b)]. stands for wave vector and is the vacuum light wavelength. For a gradient metasurface, we have constant phase gradient , where is the phase difference between neighboring antennas and represents the antenna center-to-center interval or lattice period. The coupling direction is hence determined by the sign of the phase gradient.In addition to the phase-matching condition, the spatial modal overlap between antenna scattering near-field and the desired waveguide mode profile should be optimized as well to realize mode-selective one-way coupling [17,34] [see Eq. (A3) in Appendix A]. The phase-matching condition in Eq. (1) offers instruction on the proper selection of antenna phase gradient, while Eq. (A3) manifests appropriate relative location of the array on the waveguide (elaborated in detail later).
The general design flow chart is illustrated as Fig. 1(c). Starting from different device functions, either a desired phase profile with target output polarization states or two specific phase profiles are assigned for all the antennas to realize polarization or wavelength (de)multiplexers. Computerized optimizations (see Methods for details) are then performed to calculate design parameters (such as lateral dimensions , and rotation angle ) for each antenna. Numerical simulations using the full-vector finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method are applied to verify device performance. The design method is detailed in the Methods section. In this work, we will more focus on the simplified design method under phase-matching condition (which leads to the largely enhanced coupling efficiency compared with previous research [31–33,41]) for classic polarizations and controlled excitation of high-order modes.
3. POLARIZATION DEMULTIPLEXERS FOR ARBITRARY POLARIZATIONS
Assume two arbitrary orthogonal incident polarizations and . If we set the output polarization vectors as and (denoting preserved polarization ellipse but flipped chirality), we can find a Jones matrix for each () antenna pixel that satisfies the following two equations simultaneously: and . and are two arbitrary and independent phase profiles locally imparted by antenna pixel to incident polarizations and , respectively [38–41]. The target Jones matrix can be hence solved as below:
To design polarization sorters for arbitrary incident polarizations, opposite gradient phase profiles and are applied to and , respectively, directionally coupling the orthogonal polarizations into opposite directions [48]. The required phase step is then calculated from the phase-matching condition by Eq. (1) to excite the modes of interest. The desired phase profiles for each antenna and are confirmed after selecting the initial phase value of one array element ( is not critical for coupling performance). For given incident polarizations and , the target Jones matrices are then calculated for each antenna pixel. The design parameters (antenna geometry and rotation angle ) for all antennas can be retrieved from computer optimizations (detailed in Methods).
Figures 2(a), 2(e), and 2(i) illustrate the device structures that can directionally couple orthogonal elliptical polarizations [with three representative ellipse parameters , 60°, and 80° shown as Figs. 2(b), 2(f), and 2(j), respectively] into opposite waveguide ports. The SiN waveguide patterned with Si antennas can be fabricated by the combinations of electron-beam lithography and inductively coupled plasma-reactive ion etching (ICP-RIE) detailed in Refs. [17,49,50]. For design simplicity, the waveguide cross-sectional dimension is selected as , which satisfies the single-mode transmission condition around , and the effective mode indices () of fundamental and modes are almost degenerate [41]. The antenna array locates at the center of the waveguide to maximize spatial modal overlap with the fundamental modes. The designed phase profiles of each antenna and are manifested below device schematics. As is shown in Figs. 2(c), 2(g), and 2(k), polarization demultiplexing with high coupling efficiency (see Methods for definition) about 40% is achieved. We define the directivity parameter to quantify the directional coupling performance of the proposed device: , where and are the transmission rates of the right and left waveguide ports, respectively. In Figs. 2(d), 2(h), and 2(l), we plot the directivity curves as a function of wavelength. Excellent polarization sorting performances are achieved with maximum directivity of 13 dB, validating the applicability of the method for arbitrary polarizations.
On-chip Polarization Sorters for Classic Polarizations: Linear and circular polarizations are special cases of arbitrary elliptical polarizations, but they are important polarization states of light frequently used in experiments. Therefore, integrated polarization (de)multiplexers for classic polarizations are also briefly mentioned with high coupling efficiency but simplified design process.
For linear polarizations (for example, and ), we have and . Hence, the antenna geometries can be directly optimized without calculating the Jones matrix. Figure 3(a) shows the device structure that directionally couples incident polarization to the right-propagating fundamental mode and directs polarization into the left-propagating mode [as shown in Figs. 3(c)–3(e)]. Figure 3(b) shows the phase map (see Methods) used in this design. Excellent mode quality is observed at the waveguide ports [see Figs. 3(f)–3(h)]. Taking the effective mode index into Eq. (1), we have . The designed phase profiles and for the antenna are then assigned as . As is shown in Figs. 3(i) and 3(j), high coupling efficiency around 47% and directivity over 23 dB are achieved around when the phase-matching condition is satisfied.
For circular polarizations, our design method will give the same design results as those exploiting the geometric phase [36,41], validating the comprehensiveness of our method that accommodates both propagation and geometric phase metasurfaces. Figure 3(k) delineates the chip-integrated demultiplexer to separate circular polarizations. Excellent polarization demultiplexing functionality is numerically validated in Figs. 3(l)–3(o), with high coupling efficiency of 57% and directivity over 22 dB at .
4. CHIP-INTEGRATED WAVELENGTH DEMULTIPLEXERS
The Jones matrix model can also be extended to enable complete polarization and phase control over multiple wavelengths, by applying computer optimizations of phase map datasets at different light wavelengths [41,51,52]. Specifically, if we deploy opposite phase gradients to signal channels with different wavelengths, chip-integrated polarization demultiplexers or compact light routers can be designed. Compared to the designs at single wavelength, multi-wavelength engineering requires more complicated optimizations [41]. Here we will give a new simplified design method that can simultaneously realize polarization and wavelength demultiplexing for classic polarizations.
As the phase is gauge independent modulo of 2, the phase step is equivalent to , where is an integer. Consequently, the phase-matching condition in Eq. (1) can be modified with multiple potential solutions: as long as the value of effective mode index still corresponds to a physical propagating mode and remains valid subwavelength spacing. Therefore, for one given structure the phase-matching condition may be satisfied at different wavelengths and for two counter-propagating modes:
where we set as the constant phase step, and and are the effective indices of two waveguide modes at light wavelengths and , respectively.For instance, under the condition of and (), the unidirectional phase gradient provided by the antenna array matches the momentum difference between the incident free-space electromagnetic wave and the propagating waveguide mode. Equation (3) is hence satisfied for both right-propagating and left-propagating fundamental modes at and , respectively, with effective mode indices as and accordingly (waveguide , antenna height ).
Figure 4(a) illustrates the structure that can realize wavelength and polarization demultiplexing simultaneously. As is shown in Figs. 4(b) and 4(c), at around , incident left-handed circular polarization (LCP) or right-handed circular polarization (RCP) will be directionally coupled to the right or left port of the waveguide accordingly, with high coupling efficiency around 53% and high extinction ratio [see Fig. 4(b)] exceeding 14 dB. In contrast, at , the incident LCP or RCP will be directed to the left or right waveguide port instead, fulling versatile integrated (de)multiplexing devices over both wavelength and polarization.
Simultaneous wavelength and polarization light routers can also be designed for linear polarizations in a similar manner; the device structure is sketched as Fig. 4(d). The phase steps are designed as and for and , respectively. In Figs. 4(e) and 4(f), we plot the coupling efficiency curves as a function of light wavelength for incident - and -polarizations, respectively. A maximum coupling efficiency over 67% (51% at operation wavelength 1.65 μm) and excellent extinction ratio of 20 dB are numerically validated.
5. MODE-SELECTIVE DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS AND ON-CHIP VORTEX BEAM GENERATOR
In previous design scenarios, single-mode waveguides are applied, where only fundamental and modes can propagate. For selective excitation of high-order modes in multimode waveguides, it is crucial to judiciously arrange the relative location of the antenna arrays to optimize the field overlap between the near fields scattered by antenna pixels and the target waveguide mode .
We note that Eq. (A3) (in Appendix A) gives the integration of two vector fields. Therefore, the polarization state of output electric field should be properly selected. By assigning the desired output polarization state for given incident polarization , the target Jones matrix can be solved (see Appendix A for details) for polarization-controlled coupling. As the dominate electric field component of the TE mode is -polarized, if we assign , TE modes will be preferably excited such that it has much higher modal overlap than the TM mode [17,35,41]. The phase gradient can be then judiciously selected to match the effective index of the TE mode of specific mode order. Similarly, we can apply to launch TM modes.
A. Integrated Directional Couplers with Mode Selectivity
For instance, Fig. 5(a) shows the device structure that couples normally incident linear -polarization into the left-propagating mode and right-propagating mode [see Fig. 5(b)]. The waveguide dimension is selected as , supporting and high-order modes. As is shown in Figs. 5(c) and 5(d), putting the antennas on the waveguide center gives good spatial modal overlap for fundamental and modes. While for the mode, two rows of antennas (with interval ) can yield better . Given the effective indices of 1.76 and 1.55 for and modes, respectively, a phase step of can be applied under antenna intervals and accordingly to meet the phase-matching condition in Eq. (1). We note that for the mode, a phase difference of exists between two mode lobes [see Fig. 5(d), right panel]. Therefore, we spatially dislocate the two antenna rows by half of the mode period along the direction, making the electrical near fields between the upper and lower groups of antennas (with same antenna number ) be out of phase [see the right panel of Fig. 5(c)]. The simulated output electric field norm distributions are shown in Fig. 5(e), where the white dashed lines indicate the approximate location of the antenna arrays. In Fig. 5(f) we plot the corresponding output vector diagrams in the left and right waveguide ports. High mode purity (see Methods for details) of 89% and 85% is validated with respect to ideal and modes, respectively.
To further convey the flexibility of our proposed scheme to selectively excite arbitrary waveguide modes of interest, Figs. 5(g) and 5(h) give the device structures coupling linear -polarization into the left-propagating and modes, respectively (waveguide dimension: ). The simulated output electric fields are shown in the right panels with maximum coupling efficiency of 31% and high maximum mode purity approaching 70%, which is not achievable in previous reports [36,37]. In contrast, in previous similar research either solely fundamental modes are investigated [41], or only unconfigurable hybrid modes can be harvested in waveguide ports [36,37] (where one certain waveguide mode of interest cannot be exclusively excited with high mode purity). The approximate locations of the antenna groups are marked in white dashed lines, where the phase-matched gradients calculated from Eq. (1) are synergized with properly engineered spatial overlap (see Appendix A) to facilitate the controlled launching of specific high-order modes.
B. Chip-Scale Vortex Beam Generator
In the previous example in Fig. 5(a), opposite phase gradients are assigned to the and modes. If we deploy phase gradients with the same sign, the functionality of a waveguide mode mixer can be realized, which is useful in integrated mode-division multiplexing systems [15]. Furthermore, here we will also propose and demonstrate a chip-integrated vortex beam generator (simultaneously realizing OAM excitation and light coupling in a single device) to extend and validate the flexibility of our mode-control method. Featured by its helical phase front and phase singularity [53,54], optical vortices carrying OAM with various topological charge values have proven fruitful for a wide range of applications including optical communications [55–58], photonic manipulation [59], and quantum information [60].
Figures 6(a) and 6(b) illustrate a chip-integrated twisted light generator that couples a linearly -polarized plane wave into an optical vortex carrying OAM with topological charge , which is realized by combining two high-order and modes with phase difference [61,62] [shown as Fig. 6(c)]. Similarly, we use single-row antenna array (namely antennas) with a phase-matched gradient ( and lattice period ) to excite the mode. Double-row antennas with the same phase gradient (namely antennas) are applied to selectively couple mode. Figure 6(d) illustrates the simulated output electric field norms when only the antennas or the antennas exist on the waveguide (left two panels). In Figs. 6(e) and 6(f), we plot the coupling efficiency and mode purity spectra respectively when only the (left panels) or (right panels) antennas are present. The maximum coupling efficiency of a single array is 16% and about 9% when both of the antenna arrays are present. Meanwhile, the proposed structures exhibit broad operation bandwidth over 144 nm (full width at half-maximum of the mode purity spectrum).
As is shown in Fig. 6(b), the two antenna groups are then applied together to generate the optical vortex. The two antenna arrays have an engineered interval of along the axis to realize the phase difference between the two modes, which is not exactly equal to a quarter-mode period (because the second antenna array will slightly disturb transmission of the first one). The waveguide dimension here is selected as , where effective mode indices of and modes are almost degenerate () to share the same phase velocity around . The simulated output mode profiles and corresponding phase distributions (when both and antennas are present) are shown in the last two panels of Fig. 6(d), where a doughnut-shaped intensity distribution for the optical vortex with topological charge is observed.
By re-arranging the relative locations of the and antennas to adjust the relative phase delay [61], vortex beam generation with can be also achieved. Figure 6(g) shows the calculated distributions (the coordinates of each antenna center are manifested in the left panel). An azimuth ()-dependent phase profile featured by OAM mode is observed. The distributions of the output vortex field with topological charge and after exiting the waveguide are also shown in Figs. 6(h) and 6(i), respectively, indicating that high-quality vortex beams with configurable topological charge of or −1 are successfully obtained in free space. We anticipate that our method can be readily adopted for up-scaling to generate optical vortices with higher topological charge. An integrated mode converter [63] may be also potentially helpful for launching twisted light with higher-order OAM by mode transformations [61,64]. Compared with previous methods to generate twisted light by conventional spatial light modulation [65], birefringence [66], or mode converters [62,67], our method combining light coupling and OAM conversion into a single device possesses a much smaller footprint with broad bandwidth and higher integrability.
6. DISCUSSIONS
Further discussions on the influence of illumination condition (or different types of light sources) and fabrication error on device performance are also given in this section.
A. Impact of Excitation Light Source
The absolute value of coupling efficiency highly relies on the illumination condition [27,31–33], depending on how tightly the light is focused on the antenna structures. The peripheral incident light that does not “tough” the antennas actually barely makes contribution to the coupled power into the waveguide port, thus dragging down the value of coupling efficiency [which is normalized to power of total power of the light source (see Methods)].
The total-field scattered-field (TFSF) light source [68] is commonly used to analyze antenna scattering attributes and calculate device coupling efficiency [34,36,37,69]. The coupling efficiencies of the abovementioned devices are based on the TFSF source (see Methods), which gives the most tightly focused excitation light fields around the antenna arrays. Taking the device in Fig. 4(a) as an instance, the coupling efficiencies of the same structure under different types of excitation light sources are shown in Figs. 7(a)–7(c). Diffracting plane wave illumination (truncated by a rectangular aperture) gives the lower limit of estimation for coupling efficiency about 9%. Figure 7(b) shows the results with coupling efficiency over 12% at an operation wavelength of , when the excitation Gaussian beam (about 8 μm above the waveguide) is focused by a thin lens with numerical aperture (see Methods for details). This experimentally easy-to-implement value can be further increased if we transform the Gaussian beam into an elliptical spot [70] and focus it on the antennas by an objective lens with a larger NA [34,69]. As is shown in the inset of Fig. 7(b), a large portion of the Gaussian beam with circular spot irradiates on the substrate, remaining futile to light coupling. If we apply a Gaussian source with an elliptical spot [see Fig. 7(c) inset], which can be easily achieved by either a deformed fiber [70] or beam transformations [61], the power of the light source is utilized in a more efficient way and the coupling efficiency is increased to about 30%.
We note that though the introduction of the phase-matching condition largely enhanced the coupling efficiency (by at least 10-fold) compared to the devices without rigorously applying it [31–33,41], increasing coupling efficiency is not considered during the computer optimizations (see Methods). Here the versatile functionalities toward polarization and wavelength (de)multiplexers or mode-selective directional couplers are more focused in the design process, instead of coupling efficiency. The coupling efficiency can be further increased by adding the efficiency parameter into the objective function in the optimization process or applying like square arrays of more antennas on a bigger waveguide.
B. Influence of Fabrication Error
The impact of fabrication error on device performance is also analyzed in Fig. 8. As is shown in Figs. 8(a) and 8(f), we assume the fabrication errors in antenna geometry (, unit: nm) and rotation angle (, unit: °) are mutually independent random variables obeying normal distribution , where is the mathematical expectation of the distribution and denotes its standard deviation.
Figures 8(b)–8(d) show the coupling efficiency spectra of the device sketched in Fig. 3(a) under different extent of fabrication errors (the values of and for each antenna are generated by MATLAB). The device performance in Fig. 8(b) is very approaching to the designed value [the curves in Fig. 4(c) without fabrication error], when the standard deviation [with the largest fabrication error reaching (for antenna ) and (for antenna )]. In general the coupling efficiency deteriorates with larger fabrication error, as the phase-matching condition is no longer accurately satisfied. However, the device performance is still acceptable even when [see Fig. 8(c)]: the largest fabrication error reaches (for antenna ) and (for antenna ). As is shown in Fig. 8(e), excellent directional coupling performance is still preserved under all degrees of fabrication error investigated. Figures 8(g)–8(j) give the results of the coupling performance for the device in Fig. 3(k) with fabrication error in antenna rotation angle [illustrated in Fig. 8(f), with a fixed antenna center and values of generated by MATLAB for all antennas]. As is shown in Fig. 8(i), the structure is also very robust with and the largest deviation of for antenna .
We further validate that our designs are not very sensitive to misalignment [illustrated in Fig. 8(k)] that may occur when manufacturing the antenna array(s) [17,35,49]. In Figs. 8(l) and 8(m), we plot the coupling efficiency curves under misalignment of and , respectively. Excellent (simultaneous) wavelength and polarization (de)multiplexing performances are observed for both cases, with only slightly degraded coupling efficiency under even 100 nm misalignment. Misalignment in the direction is not considered as it poses no effect on device performance. As is shown in Figs. 8(n) and 8(o), robust mode-selective coupling attributes are still valid with high coupled-mode purity under moderate misalignment values.
7. CONCLUSIONS
A comprehensive design method targeting versatile and highly efficient on-chip light coupling and mode conversions from arbitrary incident polarizations into arbitrary waveguide modes is proposed, by synergizing the Jones matrix model with generalized Snell’s law under the phase-matching condition. The coupling direction, excited mode type, and operation wavelength can be designed at will. A set of design scenarios using Si antennas-patterned SiN waveguides are numerically demonstrated around the telecommunication wavelength of 1.55 μm, including integrated polarization (de)multiplexers, wavelength routers, directional couplers with mode controllability, and chip-scale vortex beam generators.
Compared to previous research without rigorously applying the phase-matching condition [31–33,41], an at least 10-fold increment of high coupling efficiency around 67% is numerically validated. Excellent directivity around 23 dB and high extinction ratio exceeding 20 dB are also observed for the mode-selective directional couplers and wavelength (de)multiplexers, respectively. Our proposal fitting arbitrary polarizations may also outperform previous similar reports that are only applicable for circular polarizations [36,37]. Moreover, the two phase profiles locally encoded to two orthogonal elliptical polarizations can be arbitrary and independent, instead of fixed conjugated values intrinsically found in a geometric phase metasurface [37]. In addition to fundamental and modes, our systematic method can selectively and exclusively excite arbitrary high-order modes of interest [such as TE, , , ] with broad bandwidth and high mode purity, by engineering spatial modal overlap. To further validate our mode-control flexibility, a chip-integrated twisted light generator, coupling free-space linear polarizations into the optical vortex carrying orbital angular momentum with broad bandwidth and configurable topological charge or is also reported. Supplementary discussions also verify the robustness of our device: the high directivity and mode purity attributes are largely preserved, even under maximum random fabrication error up to 41 nm and misalignment of the antenna arrays up to .
We also anticipate potential extensions like ultrabroadband or enhanced manipulation over operation wavelengths by using antenna combos [71] and electrical tunable devices via applying two-dimensional materials [72–78]. Our method can be readily adopted to generate vortex beams with higher topological charges in an integrated manner. This chip-integrated metasurface platform may serve as a positive paradigm toward various optical applications, such as integrated polarization/wavelength (de)multiplexers, multifunctional mode converters, versatile waveguide couplers, configurable photonic switches, and chip-scale OAM generators for photonic integrated circuits and high-speed optical communications.
8. METHODS
A. Phase Map Generation
The phase map datasets are generated by analyzing the scattering attributes of a periodic antenna array under different antenna dimensions and light wavelengths using the FDTD method. In simulation, a Si antenna pixel rests on an infinitely large substrate, where periodic boundary conditions are applied to both and directions with an interval/lattice period of to emulate array. Perfectly matched layers (PMLs) are deployed to boundaries. The refractive indices are taken from measured literature values [44,79].
The antenna height is properly selected to ensure a full 2-phase coverage by altering antenna lateral dimensions (). The antenna rotation angle is set as θ = 0°. A linearly -polarized plane wave is injected from the top. is generated by numerically calculating the eigenphase response of the array at various combinations () by a step of 20 nm after phase compensation [80]. Cubic spline interpolations are then applied to . The phase map under linear -polarization can be obtained by matrix transpose considering the symmetry of the rectangular antennas [40].
B. Antenna Geometry Selection
The target Jones matrix of each antenna pixel can be either calculated from Eq. (2) or Eq. (3), depending on the desired device functions. The required eigenphase responses () and antenna orientation angle are obtained by decomposing by Eq. (A1). Enumeration algorithms are then performed searching through to optimize the following objective function, which will give us the optimal antenna geometry () with most approaching eigenphase responses to target values:
C. Device Performance Validation
Device performances are numerically validated by full-vector FDTD simulations. The PML condition is applied to all boundaries. Geometric parameters of the antenna array are retrieved from the computer optimizations mentioned above. The TFSF light source [68] is applied to calculate the coupling efficiency [34,36,37,69] for all devices except Fig. 7. In Fig. 7(a), the diffracting plane wave refers to the electromagnetic fields after being truncated through a rectangular aperture (locating about 3 μm above the waveguide) with the size of in the and directions. Full vectorial Gaussian beams are considered [34] in Figs. 7(b) and 7(c), as tightly focused beams are considered here for the nanoscale structures. The spot diameter in Fig. 7(b) is around 6 μm, while the transformed elliptical Gaussian beam [70] has a major axis around 6 μm and a minor axis about 0.8 μm. The coupling efficiency is defined as the ratio of the power transmitted through one certain waveguide port and the power of the total light source [34–36], where is calculated by integrating the Poynting vector along the monitored plane (bigger than the waveguide cross section to accommodate evanescent field). The monitored waveguide ports are more than 10 μm away from the antennas.
The antenna near fields in Fig. 5(c) are obtained by subtracting two electric fields calculated from pairs of simulations: one with antennas located at the waveguide top surface and the other with only bare waveguide [17,35]. Mode purity is defined as the ratio of the target waveguide mode power and total output power [17], where is retrieved from the eigenmode expansion method [12,17].
APPENDIX A
Supplementary equations and brief explanations are appended. The reciprocal nature of the system [81] and pure phase modulation assumption [40,41,43] guarantee to be a unitary and symmetric matrix, thus decomposable in terms of its eigenvalues and eigenvectors:
where is a real unitary matrix denoting rotation transformation by an angle and and can then be comprehended as eigenphases when the incident electric field vector is linearly polarized along the antenna’s two symmetric axes.Consider the mapping between two arbitrary incident and transmitted polarizations interfaced by an antenna with Jones matrix : . The matrix elements of can be solved by combining this equation with the symmetric and unitary constraints of [40,41]:
where represents the argument of . Superscripts and * denote the matrix inversion and complex conjugate, respectively. Mode-selective coupling is then achieved by simultaneously engineering and synergizing output polarization state and spatial modal overlap .The spatial overlap of antenna near fields and one certain waveguide mode profile can be quantified by the following equation, where the waveguide is extended along the direction:
The number of total antenna arrays equals the number of the lobes (of a waveguide mode) in the transverse () direction (i.e., to excite the mode, arrays of antennas are needed). The mode order is then addressed by properly selecting the matched phase gradient discussed in Eq. (1). The antenna arrays are arranged in the direction [coordinates are shown in Fig. 5(a)], each array corresponding to the location of a waveguide mode lobe with maximum intensity [illustrated as the white dashed lines in Figs. 5(e), 5(g), and 5(h)]. The antenna arrays are dislocated along the direction to match the relative phase difference () between different lobes. In general incident and polarizations are used to excite TE and TM modes, respectively. The SiN waveguide is selected also as it would be easier toward waveguide-mode management, and under the same waveguide dimension, the SiN waveguide supports fewer modes compared with the Si waveguide.
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China (61675114, 61875103, 61935013, 61975133, U1701661); Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (501100004826); Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program (20151080709); Beijing Young Talents Support Project (2017000020124G044).
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank Prof. Yuanmu Yang and Benfeng Bai from Tsinghua University for assistance with simulations and Prof. Jeehwan Kim from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dr. Yijie Shen from University of Southampton for helpful discussions.
Disclosures
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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