We propose a compact highly-efficient CMOS-compatible polarization splitter and rotator (PSR) with a wide bandwidth covering the whole O-band. It benefits from the different confinement capability of TE and TM modes in bend structure. This bend structure helps shorten the PSR and maintain high efficiency, achieving the bending, polarization splitting, rotating of light beam at the same time. Numerical simulations utilizing Lumerical 3-D FDTD solutions demonstrate that the present PSR has a high TM-TE conversion efficiency of -0.11 dB and high TE-TE conversion efficiency of -0.09 dB at 1310 nm, while the extinction ratio is 27.36 dB and 30.61 dB respectively.
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