2010-07-01
Compact optical switches and modulators based on dispersion engineered photonic crystals
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Publication
IEEE Photonics J. , Volume 2 - Issue 3 p. 404- 414
We use slow-light photonic crystals to enhance optical switching and modulation in silicon. By using dispersion-engineered designs, a switch as short as 5 mu m was achieved, in which we have demonstrated rerouting of optical pulses on a 3-ps time scale through the absorption of a femtosecond pulse. We additionally demonstrate a modulator with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) configuration with flat-band slow-light photonic crystal phase shifters that is designed to give a large group-index-bandwidth product. An extinction ratio in excess of 15 dB is obtained over the entire 11-nm bandwidth of the modulator.
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O'Faolain, L., Beggs, D. M., White, T. P., Kampfrath, T., Kuipers, K., & Krauss, T. F. (2010). Compact optical switches and modulators based on dispersion engineered photonic crystals. IEEE Photonics J., 2(3), 404–414. doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2047918 |
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