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PHOTONICS RESEARCH
Volume 8, Issue 12, Pages 1843-1849Publisher
CHINESE LASER PRESS
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.403818
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11504435, 61975062]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFB2205202]
- Innovation Fund of WNLO
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Multimode waveguide bend is one of the key components for realizing high-density mode-division multiplexing systems on chip. However, the reported multimode waveguide bends are either large, bandwidth-limited, or fabrication-complicated, which hinders their applications in future high-density multimode photonic circuits. Here we propose a compact multimode waveguide bend supporting four TE modes simply by shape-optimizing with transformation optics. The shape of the waveguide is optimized in the virtual space with gradient distribution of the refractive index, so that the scattering loss and intermode cross talk are well suppressed. After conformal mapping back into the physical space, a compact (effective radius of 17 mu m) multimode bending waveguide is obtained. Simulations show that the proposed multimode waveguide bend has little loss (<0.1 dB) and low cross talk (< -20 dB) throughout an ultrabroad wavelength range of 1.16-1.66 mu m. We also fabricated the shape-optimized multimode bending waveguide on a silicon-on-insulator wafer. At 1550 nm wavelength, the measured excess losses for the four lowest-order TE modes are less than 0.6 dB, and the intermode cross talks are all below -17 dB. Our study paves the way for realizing high-density and large-scale multimode integrated optical circuits for optical interconnect. (C) 2020 Chinese Laser Press
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