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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/HKH.2009.20.1.001

Design of Metal-Slit Fresnel Lens for Enhanced Coupling Efficiency  

Park, Dong-Won (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Seoul National University)
Jung, Young-Jin (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Seoul National University)
Koo, Suk-Mo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Seoul National University)
Yu, Sun-Kyu (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Seoul National University)
Park, Nam-Kyoo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Seoul National University)
Jhon, Young-Min (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Seok (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.20, no.1, 2009 , pp. 1-5 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, much research has been done for to realizeing nano-scale photonic circuits based on photonic crystal, plasmonics and silicon photonics in order to overcome fundamental limits of electronic circuits. These limits include such as bottleneck of speed, and size that cannot be reduced. Even though several kinds of coupling schemes have been reported, coupling structures are still large when it is compared with the nano-scale optical circuit. In this paper, we proposed using a very thin Fresnel lens while shortening the focal length of the Fresnel lens as much as possible. We proposed, for the first time, to utilize metal slits that are able to use the optical coupling system between a nano-scale optical circuit and the standard single mode optical fiber for overcoming the limitation of focal length shortening of the Fresnel lens. Comparative study has been carried out with a FDTD simulation between normal and metal slit assisted Fresnel lens. From the result of simulation, we can achieve 65% coupling efficiency for the metal-slit Fresnel lens when the focal length of metal-slit Fresnel lens is just $4{\mu}m$. On the other hand, the coupling efficiency of the normal Fresnel lens is about 43%.
Keywords
Metal slit; Fresnel lens; Optical coupling;
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