宽带消波长依存波导耦合器的统计优化设计

提出了一种适合于宽带消波长依存波导耦合器的统计优化设计方法。使用该方法 ,在 12 80nm～ 165 0nm带域内 ,对Si基SiO2 光波导作了包括偏振变动优化在内的 5 0 %和 2 0 %功率耦合比的消波长依存波导耦合器的设计。两个器件经三维波束传播法 (BPM)模拟运行验证 ,结果表明 ,在 370nm宽带内 ,两个直交偏振态均实现了功率耦合比为 (5 0± 2 .1) %和 (2 0± 1.4) %、偏振变动量分别小于 0 .65 %和 0 .2 0 %的良好特性     

基于夹层结构的偏振无关1×2定向耦合型解复用器的设计

提出一种基于夹层结构的偏振无关1×2定向耦合型解复用器,用于分离1310 nm和1550 nm两个波长.通过合理选择夹层结构芯区的折射率及波导间隙,可以调节同一波长两个正交偏振模的耦合长度相等,实现偏振无关;通过合理选择夹层结构波导宽度,可以使两个波长分别从不同输出波导端口输出,实现解复用功能.运用三维有限时域差分法进行建模仿真,对结构参数进行优化,并对器件性能进行了分析.结果表明:该器件定向耦合波导的长度为23μm,插入损耗低至0.1 dB,输出波导间的串扰低至–26.23 dB,3 dB带宽可达290 nm和200 nm.另外,本文提出的器件采用Si3N4/SiO2平台,可有效减小波导尺寸,提高集成度,不仅实现了偏振无关,而且结构紧凑、损耗低,在未来的集成光路中具有潜在的应用价值.     

对偏振变动和膜厚变动脱敏的高分子波导宽带耦合器

针对高分子光波导制造工艺中波导芯厚度的均匀性难以控制,以及材料较大的折射率各向异性引起的偏振态依赖性的实际问题,提出了采用抗波导芯厚度误差、抗偏振变动的宽带波导耦合器回路结构的解决方案,并给出了优化设计的理论和方法.在实测了含氟聚酰亚胺薄膜的色散特性的基础上,采用该方法做了中心波长为1550 nm、带宽为120 nm的3 dB含氟聚酰亚胺波导耦合器设计.该器件的三维BPM仿真运行结果表明,在上述带宽上,波导芯厚度变动在7～8 μm的范围内,两个正交偏振态均可实现(50±1.0)% 功率输出比的良好特性.     

波导侧壁起伏对聚酰亚胺波导光学梳状滤波器串扰特性的影响及其改善方法

提出了一种结构模型来分析由工艺引起的波导侧壁起伏对于聚合物波导光学梳状滤波器的滤波特性的影响。含氟聚酰亚胺高分子聚合物制备多级马赫一曾德尔串联型光学梳状滤波器件的工作参量为中心波长1550nm,波长间隔为0．8nm,40通道的波长交错分离。模拟计算：表明,对由高分子聚合物材料制备的多级马赫-曾德尔串联型光学梳状滤波器件,其主要影响是增大了信道之间的串扰,中心波长1550nm处的信道串扰由理想情况下的-40dB降为-12dB,极大地影响了器件的性能。在此基础上,提出一种改善光学梳状滤波器串扰性能的新结构,该结构由多级马赫-曾德尔耦合器和微环共振滤波器串接构成,40个通道的串扰改善为-0dB以下。     

聚合物定向耦合电光开关的模拟和优化

阐述了定向耦合电光开关的基本结构及工作原理,利用耦合模理论和电光调制理论,在1 550 nm波长下,对器件的结构参量进行了优化,并对其传输光谱、开关电压、插入损耗、串扰等特性进行了分析.模拟过程中,考虑了因金属电极和聚合物材料引起的模式损耗.器件的结构参量优化值为：波导芯截面尺寸为1.7×1.7 μm2,波导芯与电极间的限制层厚度为1.5 μm、电极厚度为0.15 μm,波导间的耦合间距为2.0 μm,相应的耦合长度为2 926 μm.模拟结果表明,本文所设计的器件在开关转换电压0和17.4 V下,在1 534到1 565 nm的波长范围内,器件的插入损耗小于0.16 dB,串扰小于－20 dB,耦合区在2 734~3 120 μm范围内,器件的插入损耗小于0.22 dB,串扰小于－20 dB.     

一种基于斜光栅辅助的非对称耦合器型光分插复用器

提出了一种基于斜光栅辅助的非对称耦合器型光分插复用器。运用复合波导的三维正交模式,对器件的三种可能的结构进行了理论分析,选出粗波导光栅型结构。利用耦合模理论,模拟了斜光栅的耦合特性并对其倾斜角进行优化设计。通过回波峰值设计法,将器件的工作波长放在波分复用信道之内,回波峰值波长放在波分复用信道之外,使得器件的性能大有提高。模拟结果表明器件的串扰可达到-30 dB,回波损耗可达到-25 dB。同时,器件的关键工艺容差较大,易于批量化生产。当斜光栅的倾斜角度在2.5°到4.5°之间时,器件的串扰低于-28 dB,回波损耗低于-22 dB。     

含氟聚酰亚胺波导波长分离耦合器优化设计

提出并采用统计优化的设计方法解决含氟聚酰亚胺波导波长交叉分离耦合器的偏振态变动的影响.在实测了含氟聚酰亚胺的色散和双折射特性的基础上,优化设计了40路波长信道、1550 nm中心波长、0.8 nm波长间隔的抗偏振变动的波长交叉分离耦合器.数值模拟显示:波长周期偏移小于0.1 nm,1 dB带宽为0.5 nm,3 dB带宽为0.8 nm,串扰小于－30 dB,偏振变动导致的波长漂移小于0.08 nm.     

基于Si3N4/SiNx/Si3N4三明治结构的偏振无关1×2多模干涉型解复用器的设计

提出一种基于Si3N4/SiNx/Si3N4三明治结构多模干涉波导的偏振无关1×2解复用器,用于分离1310和1550 nm两个波长.通过合理选择三明治结构中间层SiNx的折射率,可以调节同一波长两个正交偏振态的拍长相等,实现偏振无关;根据多模干涉原理,通过合理选择多模干涉波导的长度与宽度,可以使两个波长的输出像点分别成正像和反像,实现解复用功能.运用三维有限时域差分法进行建模仿真,对结构参数进行优化,并对器件关键结构参数的制作容差进行了分析.结果表明:该器件多模干涉波导的尺寸为4.6μm×227.7μm,插入损耗低至0.18dB,输出波导间的串扰低至–25.7dB, 3dB带宽可达60 nm.另外,本文提出的器件采用Si3N4/SiO2平台,可有效减小波导尺寸,提高集成度,不仅实现了偏振无关,而且结构紧凑、损耗低,在未来的集成光路中具有潜在的应用价值.     

一种定向耦合器型高聚物光开关设计

本文提出了一种基于定向耦合器型的高分子聚合物波导光开关设计,其突出特点是极低的波长相关性和耦合区几何尺寸敏感度,可采用橡胶成型工艺(Rubber Molding Process)实现高聚物波导在硅基底上的快速转印成型.利用BPM方法进行了器件的波导结构设计及性能模拟,插入损耗为0.4-0.6 dB,串扰<-32 dB,偏振相关损耗约为0.08 dB,电光系数r33＝14 pm/V时,器件的开关电压为42 V.     

抗偏振温度变动的聚酰亚胺波导宽带耦合器

提出了一种适合于宽带光波导耦合器的抗偏振变动、抗温度变动的优化设计理论和方法。使用该理论和方法 ,在 14 90～ 16 10nm带域上 ,对氟化聚酰亚胺光波导做了 3dB耦合器的消偏振和温度依存设计。器件经三维波束传播法 (BPM)模拟运行验证 ,结果表明 ,12 0nm带宽上 ,在 - 10～ 4 0℃的环境下 ,两个正交偏振态均实现了(5 0± 0 .8) %功率输出比的良好特性     

Design of a spectrum-expanded polymer Mach�CZehnder interferometer electro-optic switch using two-phase generating couplers

A novel structure, thorough analysis and design technique are presented for a kind of polymer Mach?CZehnder Interferometer (MZI) electro-optic (EO) switch consisting of two-phase generating couplers (PGCs). By optimizing the PGCs structure, the output spectrum of the two PGCs based MZI EO switch is greatly expanded to almost six times of that of the traditional MZI EO switch with two 3?dB directional couplers. Under a central wavelength of 1550 nm, the driving voltages of the designed switch are as low as about 0 (ON state) and ±0.925?V (OFF state) with an EO region length of 5000???m. A wide spectrum more than 350 nm (1380??1730?nm) is achieved, and within this wavelength range, the crosstalk is less than ?30?dB, and the insertion loss is less than 5.91?dB which is larger than that of the traditional MZI EO switch due to the longer waveguide length by introducing two PGCs. The design technique on the two PGCs based MZI EO switch is supported to be reasonable compared with the beam propagation method (BPM). The proposed structure shows potential wide applications especially in optical cross-connect (OXC) and optical add-drop multiplexing (OADM) systems.     

A new simulation design of three-mode division (de)multiplexer based on a trident coupler and two cascaded 3 × 3 MMI silicon waveguides

We propose a design of a silicon three-mode (de)multiplexing device based on a trident and two cascaded 3 × 3 multimode interferometers. Input lights at fundamental, first-order, and second-order modes of transverse electric (TE) polarization are simultaneously converted to fundamental TE mode and demultiplexed at different ports at the outputs. The design is carried out through both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation using three dimensional-beam propagation method and effective index method. The results show a successful three-mode multiplexing in 100 nm wavelength range around 1550 nm with low insertion loss (< 0.71 dB) and crosstalk (? 18 dB). The proposed device also exhibit a small footprint (5 µm × 400 µm) that makes it potential for not only wavelength-division multiplexing and multimode-division multiplexing transmission systems, but also high bitrate and compact on-chip silicon photonics integrated circuits.     

All-Optical Multi-Mode Interference Switch Using Non-Linear Directional Coupler as a Passive Phase Shifter

Abstract

This article presents an all-optical multi-mode interference switch in which the non-linear directional coupler is utilized to realize a passive phase shifter. The proposed structure can be used either as a 1 × 2 or a 2 × 2 switch, with two inputs applied simultaneously in the latter case. The operation of the device is mainly based on the phase difference of the inputs of the multi-mode interference section. The beam propagation method is used for the design and simulation of the structure. The simulation results approve the low sensitivity on wavelength and fabrication tolerances. The crosstalk of the structure is equal to ?31.6 dB.     

Simplified Approach for Optimizing Optical Asymmetric Curved Waveguides of Broadband Directional Couplers

ABSTRACT

Optical broadband directional couplers (BDCs) are indispensable components for providing wavelength-insensitive and flexible optical splitting in the construction of functional photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The existing BDC device structures are usually required to determine specific design parameters for different waveguide structures and operating wavelength bands. To circumvent this dilemma, here we present a novel optimization procedure to realize a compact BDC by using the asymmetric curved waveguide structure. The versatile particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is adopted to determine the optimal device parameters of the compact and broadband asymmetric curved directional couplers (ACDCs) for different coupling ratios. In order to reduce the computational complexity in the optimization, the 3D ACDC is first converted to an equivalent 2D structure by using the modified effective index method (MEIM). The device parameters of the equivalent 2D ACDC are optimized by the PSO with the objective function of a wavelength flattened coupling ratio. Afterward, the optimized 2D structure is converted to the 3D one by including the waveguide thickness. To cope with the approximation error by the MEIM, the 3D ACDC is further fine-tuned by sweeping one of the device parameters with the full 3D simulation but keeping all of the other optimal parameters obtained from the PSO intact. As a result, a DC with broad bandwidth of 100 nm is obtained over the wavelength range from 1.50 µm to 1.60 µm with a very small coupling length of 6 µm. The semi-optimized ACDC is used to construct an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and a Sagnac loop mirror (SLM), both of which show high extinction ratios of >25 dB over a broad wavelength range with low excess loss.     

Tunable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers Using Cascaded Mach Zehnder Coupler

Abstract

A tunable add/drop filter based on Cascaded Mach Zehnder (CMZ) coupler using SiO₂/silicon oxinitride (SiON) is presented with its mathematical model. The increase of filtered width (i.e., free spectral response) and lowering of crosstalk for this filter are optimized using its mathematical model with truncated binomial coupler distribution. The number of wavelength channels with 100 GHz (0.8 nm) channel spacing for 5-stage (M = 9, r = 2) truncated binomial CMZ filter with index contrast ～5% at ?20 dB crosstalk and the bending loss of 0.1 dB per MZ section are obtained as ～37 (free spectral range of 31 nm). It is seen that if during the fabrication process, waveguide core width w is increased or decreased by 0.1 μm (in percentage terms ～±6.6%), the crosstalk is slightly increased by ～7%. Thermal tuning for wavelength channels is achieved by thin film heater with low power thermooptic delay line structure which reduces the heating power by ～1.58 times in comparison to the conventional structure.     

双端泵浦的高功率掺Yb3+双包层光纤激光器

 分析了Yb³⁺的能级结构、光谱特性以及激光发射特性。实验研究了中心波长为1 100 nm、输出功率为61.6W、斜率效率为55%的高功率掺Yb³⁺双包层光纤激光器。采用了两个中心波长在915 nm的高功率激光二极管分别从光纤的两端将泵浦光耦合进入光纤，采用45°对波长在（1 100±10） nm的激光高反，对波长在（915±10） nm的泵浦光高透的双色镜将激光输出，实验发现了掺Yb³⁺双包层光纤的合作发光效应。理论分析表明，掺Yb³⁺双包层光纤中合作发光效应是由Yb³⁺对在激光产生过程中的吸收与发射引起的。     

双菱体λ/4消色差相位延迟器的设计

根据菲涅尔全内反射相变理论,给出了双菱体λ/4消色差器的结构设计、性能分析和测量方法.由有效通光孔径和光线追迹设计出BK7玻璃在波长532 nm时相位延迟λ/4的双菱体的结构,用作532 nm至1 064 nm波长范围的标准λ/4相位延迟器.理论分析了入射角变化和波长变化对双菱体相位延迟的影响,当入射角变化限制在±4.3°以内时,其影响得到补偿;波长从532 nm到1 064 nm产生的误差为－0.65°.采用椭偏法中的消光技术,分别实测了双菱体在532 nm和1 064 nm波长下的相位延迟为：90.08±0.14°和88.99±0.1°,可知两不同波长产生的相位延迟误差为－1.09°.     

Performance analysis of an eight channel demultiplexer using a 2D-photonic crystal quasi square ring resonator

Recent years, the design of photonic crystal (PC) based optical devices is receiving keen interest in research and scientific community. In this paper, two dimensional (2D) PC based eight channel demultiplexer is proposed and designed and the functional characteristics of demultiplexer namely resonant wavelength, transmission efficiency, quality factor, spectral width, channel spacing and crosstalk are investigated. The demultiplexer is designed to drop the wavelength centred at 1537.6 nm, 1538.5 nm, 1539.4 nm, 1540.4 nm, 1541.2 nm, 1541.9 nm, 1542.6 nm and 1543.1 nm. The proposed demultiplexer is primarily composed of bus waveguide, drop waveguide and quasi square ring resonator. The quasi square ring resonator and square ring micro cavity (inner rods) are playing a vital role for a desired channel selection. The operating range of the devices is identified through a photonic band gap (PBG) which is obtained using a plane wave expansion (PWE) method. The functional characteristics of the proposed demultiplexer are attained using a 2D finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The proposed device offers low crosstalk and high transmission efficiency with ultra-compact size, hence, it is highly desirable for DWDM applications.     

An ultracompact hybrid plasmonic waveguide polarization beam splitter

We propose an ultracompact polarization beam splitter based on an asymmetric directional coupler, which comprises of a horizontally slotted waveguide and a hybrid plasmonic waveguide. The splitter is designed such that there is a large difference between the effective indices of the TE-polarized modes for the two waveguides, while the effective index difference between the TM-polarized modes are quite small in a wide wavelength range. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed splitter with a short device length of 5 μm shows extinction ratios as low as ?20 dB with bandwidths as great as 100 nm.