In:
Optics Letters, Optica Publishing Group, Vol. 45, No. 10 ( 2020-05-15), p. 2846-
Kurzfassung:
Leveraging the physical dimensions of an optical carrier (e.g., wavelength, mode, or polarization) allows significant scaling of the transmission capacity for optical communications. Here we propose a scheme for implementing on-chip silicon (de)multiplexers with simultaneous wavelength-, mode-, and polarization-division (de)multiplexing capability. The device is constructed by using cascaded subwavelength grating (SWG)-based contra-directional couplers. To verify the feasibility of the proposed structure, we perform a proof-of-concept experiment of an 8-channel (de)multiplexer with two wavelengths, two modes, and two polarizations. The insertion losses are lower than 6.6 dB and the crosstalk values are below − 18.7 d B at around 1540 nm and 1550 nm for all the eight channels.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0146-9592
,
1539-4794
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Optica Publishing Group
Publikationsdatum:
2020
ZDB Id:
243290-0