On-Chip Switch and Add/Drop Multiplexer Design With Left-Handed Behavior in Photonic Crystals

GÖVDELİ A., KOCAMAN S.

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, cilt.26, sa.2, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/jstqe.2019.2950762
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, switch, modulator, photonic crystal, SLOW-LIGHT, OPTICAL MODULATORS, SILICON ROUTER, ENERGY, COMPACT
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.