A Compact Polarization Independent Power splitter for Mid IR Range

Abstract

Abstract Photonic crystal based Power splitters being associated with significant advantages related to dimensions have been widely explored in literature in last few years. However these devices are associated with a serious drawback of polarization dependency which restricts their operation in various optical interconnects. This paper designs compact Photonic crystal based polarization independent Power splitter for Mid IR Range. The proposed structure has very small footprints with dimensions of 10×10μm2 shows a transmission efficiency of efficiency of 97% at wavelength of 1430 nm. Such a small footprint power splitter can help significantly while designing optical setups in areas of spectroscopy and security.