The performance of a polarization splitter based on vertically coupled microring resonator is rigorously investigated by a combination of a 3D full vectorial film mode matching method with a 3D full vectorial coupled mode theory. The spectral responses of the structure for TE and TM mode are calculated, together with eigenmodes of uncoupled waveguides and scattering matrix of coupling region. T...

We propose a compact polarization beam splitter (PBS) based on a silicon nitride enhanced silicon-on-insulator platform using an augmented low-index guiding (ALIG) waveguide structure. In the ALIG structure, the TM mode is mostly confined in the low-index silicon nitride, while the TE mode is confined in the high-index silicon. Since the two modes are confined in two separate layers, their prop...

The inAu ence of a di s tribution of relaxation times is studied in annealing ex pe rim ents . A twore la xation tim e mode l is proposed , whic h pe rmits th e ca lculatio n of the di stribution o f relaxation times from the c rossover data of Spinn e r and Napolitano as we ll as that of Ritland. This mode l al so characte ri zes th e struc ture of any glass in te rms of two parame te rs . Thu...

The optical characteristics of graphene oxide (GO) were explored to design and fabricate a GO-based optical humidity sensor. GO film was coated onto a SU8 polymer channel waveguide using the drop-casting technique. The proposed sensor shows a high TE-mode absorption at 1550 nm. Due to the dependence of the dielectric properties of the GO film on water content, this high TE-mode absorption decre...

We present ultrawide flat-band reflectors enabled with multilevel resonant leaky-mode structures. The reflectors are designed using particle swarm optimization. We show that three-level silicon-on-insulator structures provide bandwidths of approximately 840 nm for TE polarization and approximately 835 nm for TM polarization, across which reflectance is greater than 99% and 97.5%, respectively. ...

The local dispersion relation of a photonic crystal waveguide is directly determined by phase-sensitive near-field microscopy. We readily demonstrate the propagation of Bloch waves by probing the band diagram also beyond the first Brillouin zone. Both TE and TM polarized modes were distinguished in the experimental band diagram. Only the TE polarized defect mode has a distinctive Bloch wave cha...

Existence of backward TE volume modes which are to be identified as Magnetostatic Wave (MSW) in anisotropic single-negative slab with partly negative permeability tensor component have already been revealed by present authors. In this paper, detailed modal analysis has been carried out for this kind of TE volume modes to find out their novel and peculiar properties. From these numerical results...

The WMAP first year detection of a high redshift reionization through its imprints on CMB anisotropy T and TE mode angular power spectra calls for a better comprehension of the universe ionization and thermal history after the standard recombination. Different reionization mechanisms predict different signatures in the CMB, both in temperature and polarization anisotropies and in spectral disto...

The fundamental quasi-TE and quasi-TM modes of a sub-wavelength strip silicon waveguide are not purely TE or TM as the plane waves in free space. We investigate theoretically and experimentally the far-field polarization compositions of the two waveguide modes after they emanate from the waveguide facet. The measured polarization extinction ratios (PERs) of 31 dB for the quasi-TM mode and 26 dB...

In conventional aspect-ratio tokamaks, electron cyclotron (EC) waves can provide local heating and current drive. However, the high-β spherical tokamak (ST) plasma conditions cut off propagation of EC waves. The electron Bernstein wave (EBW) does not experience a density cut off and is strongly absorbed and emitted at the EC harmonics, allowing EBWCD to be used in STs for current profile contro...