Title
1×3 reconfigurable and simultaneous three-mode selective router based on silicon waveguide utilizing Ti microheaters as thermo-optic phase shifters
Abstract
In this work, a photonic-silicon-based 1✕3 reconfigurable simultaneous three-mode selective router has been demonstrated by the proof-of-concept. The device can be flexibly controlled to route three input modes of TE0, TE1, and TE2 to three outputs by utilizing three controllable Ti thermo-optic phase shifters as drivers. The proposed router is constructed from a Ψ -junction coupler and two kinds of 3✕3 multi-mode interference (MMI) couplers. The proposed device can attain low insertion loss smaller than 5 dB and crosstalk below −20 dB in broadband of 40-nm thanks to the numerical simulation-based optimization. Furthermore, the proposed router has relatively large fabrication tolerances of width and height and consumes a low electric power consumption. The proposed device is reconfigurable for simultaneous three guided modes, and thus, leading to a promising potential to widely apply for broadband optical signal processing in the mode-division multiplexing systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.mejo.2021.105278
Microelectronics Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Optical mode selective router,Silicon waveguide,Multimode interference coupler,Ψ-junction coupler,Thermo-optic effect,Controllable phase shifter,Numerical simulation
Journal
117
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0026-2692
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9