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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 30, 期 14, 页码 25842-25854出版社
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.462636
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 110-2224-E-992-001, MOST 111-2119-M-002-009]
This paper proposes and demonstrates a thermally bi-directionally tunable arrayed waveguide grating (TBDTAWG) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. The device utilizes passive and active designs to achieve AWG functionality and fine-tuning of its filtering responses. By employing an S-shaped architecture and two triangular thermal-tuning regions with complementary phase distributions, bi-directional red- and blue-shift tunable functions are achieved.
A thermally bi-directionally tunable arrayed waveguide grating (TBDTAWG) is proposed and demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. The device is composed of passive and active designs for realizations of an AWG and fine tuning of its filtering responses. Given that the required length difference between adjacent arrayed waveguides for the SOI platform is considerably short (similar to 3-5 mu m) due to a high index contrast, an S-shaped architecture with a larger footprint instead of a rectangular one is employed in the AWG. Bi-directionally tunable functions, i.e., both red- and blue-shift tunable functions, can be achieved by using two triangular thermal-tuning regions with complementary phase distributions in the S-shaped architecture despite using only materials with positive thermo-optic coefficients, i.e., Si and SiO2. Measurement results illustrate that both red- or blue-shifted spectra can be achieved and a linear bi-directional shift-to-power ratio of +/- 30.5 nm/W as well as a wide tuning range of 8 nm can be obtained under an electrical voltage range of 0-2.5 V, showing an agreement between the measurement results and two-dimensional simulation results. This also shows the potential of the proposed TBDTAWG for automatically stabilizing the spectral responses of AWG-based (de)multiplexers for coarse or dense wavelength division multiplexing communication systems by using a feedback control circuit. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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