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FRONTIERS OF OPTOELECTRONICS
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12200-023-00076-1
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Optical phased array; Optical phase shifter; Silicon photonics; Integrated optics
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This paper proposes and demonstrates two energy-efficient optical phase shifters that achieve a well-balanced performance in terms of power consumption, insertion loss, modulation speed, and footprint. The proposed round-spiral phase shifter is robust in fabrication and suitable for large-scale photonic integrated circuits.
An optical phased array (OPA) is a promising non-mechanical technique for beam steering in solid-state light detection and ranging systems. The performance of the OPA largely depends on the phase shifter, which affects power consumption, insertion loss, modulation speed, and footprint. However, for a thermo-optic phase shifter, achieving good performance in all aspects is challenging due to trade-offs among these aspects. In this work, we propose and demonstrate two types of energy-efficient optical phase shifters that overcome these trade-offs and achieve a well-balanced performance in all aspects. Additionally, the proposed round-spiral phase shifter is robust in fabrication and fully compatible with deep ultraviolet (DUV) processes, making it an ideal building block for large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Using the high-performance phase shifter, we propose a periodic OPA with low power consumption, whose maximum electric power consumption within the field of view is only 0.33 W. Moreover, we designed Gaussian power distribution in both the azimuthal (phi) and polar (theta) directions and experimentally achieved a large sidelobe suppression ratio of 15.1 and 25 dB, respectively.
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