High-performance Silicon Optical Phase Shifter Targeting Large-scale Programmable Photonic Circuits
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Qiu, Huaqing; Prost, Mathias; Coenen, David; Kongnyuy, Tangla David; Reza, Manuel; Croes, Guillaume; Ramezani, Maliheh; Subramaniam, Puvendren; Oprins, Herman; Hu, Hao; Brouckaert, Joost; Jansen, Roelof; Dahlem, Marcus
Abstract:
We leverage phase mismatch in sharp bends to enhance the performance of silicon thermooptic phase shifters at 1550 nm. The measured insertion loss, power consumption, modulation bandwidth, and footprint are 0.14 dB, 3.4 mW/(pie), 10.5 kHz, and 42 (μ)m × 42 (μ)m, respectively.