• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 1, 76 (2022)
Yanxian Wei1, Hailong Zhou1、4, Yuntian Chen1, Yunhong Ding2、3, Jianji Dong1、*, and Xinliang Zhang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
  • 3SiPhotonIC ApS, 2830 Virum, Denmark
  • 4e-mail: hailongzhou@hust.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.444075 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yanxian Wei, Hailong Zhou, Yuntian Chen, Yunhong Ding, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang. Anti-parity-time symmetry enabled on-chip chiral polarizer[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(1): 76 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Encircling an exceptional point (EP) in a parity-time (PT) symmetric system has shown great potential for chiral optical devices, such as chiral mode switching for symmetric and antisymmetric modes. However, to our best knowledge, chiral switching for polarization states has never been reported, although chiral polarization manipulation has significant applications in imaging, sensing, communication, etc. Here, inspired by the anti-PT symmetry, we demonstrate, for the first time to our best knowledge, an on-chip chiral polarizer by constructing a polarization-coupled anti-PT symmetric system. The transmission axes of the chiral polarizer are different for forward and backward propagation. A polarization extinction ratio of over 10 dB is achieved for both propagating directions. Moreover, a telecommunication experiment is performed to demonstrate the potential applications in polarization encoding signals. It provides a novel functionality for encircling-an-EP parametric evolution and offers a new approach for on-chip chiral polarization manipulation.
    H=[β1κ10κ1β2+iγκ30κ3β3],

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    gap12=gap02+100  nm(gap02100  nm)×cos(zL34π),gap23=gap02+50  nm(gap0250  nm)×sin(zL34π),

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    [β1κ10κ1β2+iγκ30κ3β3][E1E2E3]=λ[E1E2E3],(A1)

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    [β1+iκ12γiκ1κ3γiκ1κ3γβ3+iκ32γ][E1E3]=λ[E1E3].(A2)

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    λ=β1+β32+iκ1κ3γ±iκ12κ32γ2(β1β32+iκ12κ322γ)2.(A3)

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    Yanxian Wei, Hailong Zhou, Yuntian Chen, Yunhong Ding, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang. Anti-parity-time symmetry enabled on-chip chiral polarizer[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(1): 76
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