Seminar on Polarization Management in Silicon Photonic Platform

Silicon photonics is ideal for optical communication applications. To achieve long-haul and high-speed optical communication, polarization management is very important for silicon photonic integrated circuits, due to the large difference in the effective indices of the fundamental TE and TM modes in a typical silicon waveguide. Here, four polarization-handling components will be presented, including polarizers, polarization beam splitters and polarization rotators.