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Modes of Slot Waveguides

Simulation of silicon cross-slot waveguide with FIMMWAVE software

FIMMWAVE's mode solvers were used to calculate the modes of a silicon cross-slot waveguide; slot waveguides use a combination of high-index and low-index layers to generate light confinement.

FIMMWAVE can be used to model any slot waveguide geometry built from any materials, including silicon, polymer and hybrid slot waveguides. The silicon cross-slot waveguide presented here is taken from an article from Helsinki University of Technology [1], featuring FIMMWAVE simulations. The paper also presents results for waveguide geometries with angled sidewalls.

See also [2], also featuring FIMMWAVE simulations for the modelling of slot waveguides.

Silicon slot waveguide designed in FIMMWAVE

Abstract - Slotted waveguide antenna with wide bandwidth characteristics is designed at the 9.4 -GHz frequency (X -band) for radar application. The antenna design consists of 200 narrow -wall slots with novel design of V -shaped metal reflector to enhance side lobe level (SLL) and gain. New optimized slot design results in SLL of -31.9 dB. Slotted Waveguide Array Antennas is the first comprehensive treatment of these antennas from an engineering perspective. It provides readers with a thorough foundation in applicable theories as well as hands-on instruction for practical analysis, design, manufacture and use of important types of waveguide slot. Waveguide slot array antenna is presented that achieved 19.2% bandwidth 6. In this paper, a 4×4 slots antenna array with a distribution network based on ridge gap waveguide technology is presented. The design goal is to cover as much as of the V-band frequency range. (a) (b) (c) Fig.

The modes of the silicon slot waveguide were calculated using FIMMWAVE's fully vectorial FDM Solver. The calculation only took a few seconds, and the solver was able to take advantage of the waveguide symmetry.

This waveguide is a single-mode waveguide, and the fundamental TE-like mode and TM-like mode are shown below. You can see clearly how the cross-slot geometry generates a 90-degree rotation of the field distribution between the two polarisations. FIMMWAVE can also provide a large number of mode properties, including effective index, propagation constant, group index, dispersion, polarisation, effective mode area, confinement factor etc.

Properties of the fundamental TE-like mode of the silicon cross-slot waveguide:
(clockwise from top-left) intensity profile, Ex field profile and horizontal section, mode properties

Properties of the fundamental TM-like mode of the silicon cross-slot waveguide:
(clockwise from top-left) intensity profile, Ey field profile and horizontal section, mode properties

FIMMWAVE allows you to check the accuracy of your calculation as it features three independent fully-vectorial Cartesian mode solvers: the FMM, FDM and FEM Solvers. We ran the simulation with all three solvers and found the results to be in excellent agreement.

FIMMPROP, the propagation tool associated with FIMMWAVE, can also be used to model light propagating within slot-waveguide structures.

References

[1] A. Khanna, A. Säynätjoki, A. Tervonen and S. Honkanen, 'Control of optical mode properties in cross-slot waveguides', Applied Optics 48, 34, pp. 6547-6552 (2009)

[2] M.P. Hiscocks, C. Su, B. Gibson, A.D. Greentree, L.C.L. Hollenberg, and F. Ladouceur, 'Slot-waveguide cavities for optical quantum information applications', Optics Express 17, 9, p7295-7303 (2009)

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Optics Letters
Vol. 41,
Issue 11,
pp. 2501-2504
(2016)
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.002501

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Abhijeet Phatak, Zhenzhou Cheng, Changyuan Qin, and Keisuke Goda, 'Design of electro-optic modulators based on graphene-on-silicon slot waveguides,' Opt. Lett. 41, 2501-2504 (2016)
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We present a graphene-on-silicon (GoS) suspended vertical slot waveguide. By changing the Fermi level of graphene, the variation in the effective refractive index (RI) of the waveguide is a factor of two larger than that in the traditional GoS rib waveguide. The improvement is due to the light-intensity enhancement and the poor confinement of the optical mode in the slot nanostructure. We design Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and microring modulators based on the GoS suspended vertical slot waveguide. Our calculations show that the modulators can be energy-efficient and footprint-compact due to the large phase shift of the propagating mode in the waveguide after applying a gate voltage on the graphene. Fabrication of our design is easy and CMOS-compatible. It paves the way for chip-integrated electronic-RI modulators.

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