On-Chip Switch and Add/Drop Multiplexer Design With Left-Handed Behavior in Photonic Crystals
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, vol.26, no.2, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 26 Issue: 2
- Publication Date: 2020
- Doi Number: 10.1109/jstqe.2019.2950762
- Journal Name: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
- Keywords: Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, switch, modulator, photonic crystal, SLOW-LIGHT, OPTICAL MODULATORS, SILICON ROUTER, ENERGY, COMPACT
- Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
An integrated optical switch consisting of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with photonic crystals-based phase shifters is designed for telecom wavelength range. The phase modulation along the two arms of the interferometer comes from the photonic band-to-band transition on the photonic crystals that leads to a large effective index difference and results in a switching/modulation-with a low-voltage, small optical interaction length, and a low insertion loss. Moreover, shifting along the same photonic band is utilized for constructing a fully reconfigurable add-drop multiplexer for tunable wavelength range with a broadband response.