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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 30, 期 12, 页码 20543-20553出版社
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.456869
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- National Research Council Canada
- China Scholarship Council
A novel and energy efficient switch building block is proposed and demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator platform. It uses a compact mode insensitive phase shifter with a mode exchanger to achieve the same phase shift for all modes, leading to reduced power consumption.
A novel and energy efficient mode insensitive switch building block is proposed and experimentally demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator platform. Based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the switch uses a relatively compact mode insensitive phase shifter which includes a mode exchanger. The novel structure realizes the exact same phase shift for all modes by exchanging the modes midway within the phase shifter. The design approach leads to reduced power consumption otherwise not possible. Switching the first two quasi transverse electric (TE) modes simultaneously consumes 25.6 mW of power, an approximately 30% reduction from previous reported demonstrations. The measured insertion loss is 3.1 dB on average with a worst-case crosstalk of -14.9 dB over a 40 nm optical bandwidth from 1530 nm to 1570 nm. The design methodology enables scalability up to four optical modes. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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