Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14 (8): 080601, Published Online: Aug. 3, 2018
Proposal of an InP-based few-mode transmitter based on multimode interference couplers for wavelength division multiplexing and mode division multiplexing applications Download: 977次
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Fig. 3. Schematic diagram of the wavelength-mode division multiplexer: (a) general interference N × 1 MMI and (b) symmetric interference K × 1 MMI.
Fig. 4. (a) Epitaxial structure of the MMI, and (b) the cross section view of the waveguide.
Fig. 5. Field distributions of a 3 × 1 symmetric interference MMI as a multiplexer (MMI-3) when (a) a fundamental TE 0 mode or (b) a first-order TE 1 mode is injected into a different input port.
Fig. 6. Wavelength sensitivity of the 3 × 1 MMI wavelength-mode multiplexer when (a) the fundamental TE 0 modes or (b) the first-order TE 1 modes are launched from port 1 to port 3.
Fig. 7. Simulated fabrication tolerance for the (a) length and (b) width direction of the wavelength-mode division multiplexer.
Fig. 8. Field distribution when an input TE 0 mode transmits through (a–c) MMI-1 and MMI-2 and (d–e) MMI-1, MMI-2, and MMI-3. (a) and (b) are obtained by disconnecting one of the feeding arms to MMI-2.
Zhaosong Li, Dan Lu, Bing Zuo, Song Liang, Xuliang Zhou, Jiaoqing Pan. Proposal of an InP-based few-mode transmitter based on multimode interference couplers for wavelength division multiplexing and mode division multiplexing applications[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(8): 080601.