Inverse-Designed Tellurite Devices for Polarization Control
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Abstract
Tellurite glasses are of high interest in integrated photonics for sensing and, in particular, telecommunications applications, where they serve as key materials for amplification and mid-IR light sources due to their wide transparent window, thermal and mechanical stability, and high optical nonlinearity. In this work, we present two inverse-designed devices for polarization management on a tellurium dioxide platform: a TM-pass polarizer and a polarization beam splitter. The TM-pass polarizer achieves an average simulated transmission efficiency of −0.6 dB and an polarization crosstalk below −20.9 dB across the entire C-band, with a footprint of only 24μm×6 μm. The polarization beam splitter has an ultra-compact footprint of 28μm×6μm and achieves average TM and TE transmission efficiencies of approximately −0.4 dB, with crosstalk below −18.3 dB and −27.2 dB, respectively. These are the first freeform devices demonstrated on a tellurium dioxide platform, exhibiting strong robustness to fabrication variations and showcasing the versatility of the platform beyond nonlinear applications.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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