SLIDE 1-Opening slide

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, my name is arviza from UI and I would
like to present you about design of GaN based S-Bend Y-Branch power splitter
with MMI structure.

SLIDE 2-presentation outline

Here is the outline, first , I want to talk about GaN Material, Second, the BPM
theory which is used in OptiBPM, then about process to design power splitter
and the last is about the result of the simulations in this work.

SLIDE 3-Introduction to GaN

Recently GaN has attracted many researcher because of its superior properties,
such as: wide band gap which means only few absorptions in IR region, has
temperature stability in extreme condition which is requirement for high power
device, the most enviromental friendly comparing to III-V compounds.
As far as we know, many research work using GaN material, such as: LD, LED,
etc. But only a few researcher who research about waveguide based device
using GaN, therefore, this situation motivate us to design GaN based power
splitter. The function of Power splitter is to split light into several branches and
can be used in telecommunication device to bring information from one system
to another system. In this work, to simulate the design we use OptiBPM 12

SLIDE 4-BPM Theory

To simulate the design, OPtiBPM use FFTBPM to calculate propagation of light
in 3D, as you can see here, these are 3 equation of FFTBPM

SLIDE 5-design define material

First step in designing power splitter is defining the material, In this work, we
use parameter GaN on sapphire from previous research who has already done
by TU Darmstadt, This is the composition, it consist of sapphire, AlN low temp
and High Temp, AlN/GaN, GaN. There is several layer that we called Buffer
layer Between top GaN layer and Sapphire, it is used to reduce mismatch lattice
between GaN and Sapphire

SLIDE 6-design size of wafer

The next step is defining size of wafer, the length of the wafer is 1000 um and
the width is 70 um

SLIDE 7 dan 8- width and thickness

To obtain the optimum size of the waveguide, we did many simulations, it is
shown that the optimum size of Waveguide is 4 um length and 4 um width.

SLIDE 9-type of wv
There are many type of waveguides but in this work, we only use linear wv,
rectangular waveguide as MMI and S-Bend waveguide, MMI waveguide is
used as transition to split mode from single mode into two separating mode. SBend is used because it is low loss and has S shaped structure which can make
shorter device comparing to Y linear junction, therefore the fabrication is easier.

SLIDE 10-MMI design

The next step is we combine the linear waveguide with the rectangular
waveguide, the width of MMI is 8 um to split two separating waveguide and we
did simulation to obtain the optimum length of waveguide and the result is 25
um.

SLIDE 11 s-bend design

Next step, we combine S-bend with previous simulation, we use s-bend cosine
and did many simulation to obtain the optimum radius of the s-bend, the
optimum radius is 25 um,

SLIDE 12-final design

This is the final design in this work,

SLIDE 13-relative power

As you can see here, this is the power relative output, starting from 0 um to 600
um in z-axis direction, the power is maximum 100 %, start from 600 um to
1000 um, the power decrease almost linearly to 94,5 %, this means that the
losses only occured in the S-Bend waveguide, we believe this happen because at
bending waveguide, the light field is pressed slightly to the outer core cladding
interface and deformed from its original profile, however it can be reduced by
adding offset.

SLIDE 14-optical power distribution

Here is the optical power distribution of our power splitter, the red color
indicates 100 % of power and the yellow color shown on s-bend waveguide, the
shape of mode in the input, MMI and output are shown around the picture, the
form is uniform and in the MMI structure the mode is widen.

SLIDE 15-CONCLUSION
From the simulation, it can be concluded that the size of straight waveguide is 4
um for both length and width, the size of MMI 25 um for its length and 8 um for
its width and the optimum radius of S-bend is 10,5 um, thats all, thank you