In this paper, we have introduced a surface plasmonic two-mode interference (SPTMI) coupler having a silicon core, GaAsInP side cladding, and silver top and bottom cladding as an optical power splitter. A wide range of tunability from the 50∶50 splitting ratio to 1∶99 is achieved by refractive index modulation of the GaAsInP cladding with application of varying optical pulse power. The coupling length of the SPTMI-based splitter is ∼11.5 times less than that of a previously reported optical power splitter based on multimode waveguide holograms. The proposed optical power splitter has potential in development of large-scale integrated circuits due to its compactness and high fabrication tolerance.
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