“…In silicon photonics, an optical power divider is also a basic component, which is often utilized for power distribution or as a basic element for building more complex devices, such as modulators [6], switches [7], and multiplexers [8]. Over the years, tremendous efforts have been made and a variety of schemes have been proposed and demonstrated [9][10][11][12]. Notice that polarizers and power dividers are always combined together to highly enrich the choices of devices for building high-performance PICs, involving on-chip optical switching The authors are with Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China (e-mail: dcy@seu.edu.cn; mjlu@seu.edu.cn; and multiplexing systems [2,8,13].…”