Power splitter based on cascaded multimode photonic crystal waveguides with triangular lattice of air holes

We propose a power splitter based on two-dimensional photonic crystals with triangular lattice of air holes. The structure can be divided into three sections consisting of the input waveguide, area-defect regions, and output waveguides. The operational principle of the splitter is that an incident field in the frequency range of interest is split into a twofold mode pattern with small distance in the first area-defect and then one of which is shifted by the secondary area-defect regions to output port. We optimize the size of area-defects for the mode-splitting and the shifting from the numerical analysis of distribution of time-averaged Poynting vectors by a finite-difference time domain method. And the transmittance over 45% per each output with a bandwidth about 0.06a/lambda is achieved. (c) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.