In order to use power splitter for communication and real world applications (e.g., telephony performances, antenna designs, wireless communications, digital communications, optical communications, CATV transmission systems, airborne systems), studying the nature and characteristics of the splitter is important. The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss various techniques aimed to deve...

Enhanced optical switches structure can now handle multicast routing in the optical layer. For an optical node to be able to do branching in the physical layer, it must be equipped with a light splitter. Light splitters are expensive equipment. A lot of work had been done in order to reduce the cost of implementing splitters within the network. Moreover, the internal structure of a splitter is ...

The performance of a polarizing beam splitter based on the one-dimensional photonic crystals (1D-PCs), is theoretically investigated. The polarizing beam splitter consists of a symmetric stack of the low-index quarter-wave plates and the high-index half-wave plates with a central defect layer of air. The linear transmission properties of the polarizing beam splitter are numerically simulat...

In this paper, we proposed an all optical 4-to-2 encoder that has 4 input and 3 output ports. This device generates a 2 bit binary code based on which input port is active. We used nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators along with optical power splitter for realizing the proposed encoder. In this device the switching rate and area are obtained about 333 GHz and 612µm2 respectively.

A simple dichroic beam splitter capable of separating extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation from high-powered visible and UV laser beams is demonstrated. The device has high XUV reflection efficiency (R approximately 44%) and high damage resistance to intense laser radiation and is therefore applicable to laser-generated XUV radiation sources, including harmonic generation, sum-frequency mixing, ...

We describe a compact double-layer waveguide grating splitter that not only achieves efficient coupling between single mode fiber and a silicon-on-insulator optical waveguide but also realizes effective splitting. By appropriate choice of waveguide/grating parameters, including thicknesses, periods, height, and fill factor to optimize the mode matching, coupling efficiency is improved and the v...