Photonics Research, 2017, 5 (4): 04000340, Published Online: Oct. 10, 2018
Design of low-energy on-chip electro-optical 1 × M wavelength-selective switches
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Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of proposed WSS employing an N -fold set of wavelength-dedicated 1 × M equi-path switching trees.
Fig. 2. Implementation of Fig. 1 utilizing inplane 1 × 3 and 3 × 1 arrayed-waveguide grating devices for the demux and mux sections.
Fig. 3. Waveguide diagram of 1 × 4 tree utilizing dual-nanobeam MZIs as the 1 × 2 constituent switches.
Fig. 4. Waveguide diagram of 1 × 4 tree utilizing MZI constituent 1 × 2 switches composed of a pair of three-waveguide couplers, each containing a central nanobeam.
Fig. 5. Waveguide diagram of 1 × 4 tree using asymmetric contra-couplers as 1 × 2 elemental switches, each switch containing an offset dual-grating coupling region.
Fig. 6. Overall spectral response of the switches in Figs. 3 , 4 , and 5 in the zero bias state (unshifted spectrum) and in the full-bias state (shifted spectrum).
Fig. 7. Passive demultiplexing of a multiwavelength input stream using a sequence of dedicated-resonance 2 × 2 devices (the example of the Fig. 3 structure).
Richard Soref. Design of low-energy on-chip electro-optical 1 ×