Title :
Ultra-compact and broadband 1?4 thermo-optic switch based on W2 photonic crystal waveguides
Author :
Kaiyu Cui;Qiang Zhao;Xue Feng; Fang Liu;Yidong Huang;Wei Zhang
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Broadband 1×4 thermo-optic switch is demonstrated based on four W2 photonic crystal waveguides with footprint of 17.6 μm×8 μm. Extinction ratio larger than 15dB is obtained over the bandwidth of 15±1 nm in each channel.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Broadband communication","Optical waveguides","Couplers","Silicon","Extinction ratio"
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8892
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2015.7340094
