Abstract

Because chemical gas is sensitive to absorption in the 2 µm band, and 2 µm matches the absorption band of the remote sensing material, many remote sensors and optical sensors are designed to operate in the 2 µm wavelength region. In this paper, we designed an integrated 3 dB power splitter centered at 2 µm. The study of this device is built on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. We introduced a subwavelength grating (SWG) to improve the performance of the device. We used the three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3D FDTD) method to analyze the effect of the structure on the power splitter. The insertion loss (IL) of the fundamental TE mode is only 0.04 dB at 2 µm and its bandwidth of IL ${\lt}{0.45}\;{\rm dB}$ is 940 nm (1570–2510 nm). It is suitable for multidomain and all-band photonic integrated circuits at 2 µm.

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