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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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A silicon-based hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a metal cap for a nano-scale light confinement
- 2009
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 17:19, s. 16646-16653
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a metal cap on a silicon-on-insulator rib (or slab) is presented. There is a low-index material nano-layer between the Si layer and the metal layer. The field enhancement in the nano-layer provides a nano-scale confinement of the optical field (e. g., 50nm x 5nm) when operates at the optical wavelength lambda = 1550nm. The theoretical investigation also shows that the present hybrid plasmonic waveguide has a low loss and consequently a relatively long propagation distance (on the order of several tens of lambda).
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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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Compact Microracetrack Resonator Devices Based on Small SU-8 Polymer Strip Waveguides
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1041-1135 .- 1941-0174. ; 21:1-4, s. 254-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Compact microracetrack resonator (MRR) devices are presented with small SU-8 polymer strip waveguides. The SU-8 strip waveguide has an SU-8 polymer core (n similar to 1.573), a SiO2 buffer (n similar to 1.445), and an air cladding. The fabricate straight waveguide has a low propagation loss of about 0.1. dB/mm. With such a high index-contrast optical waveguide, a compact MRR with a small bending radius (similar to 150 mu m) are designed and fabricated. The measured spectral responses of the through/drop ports show a Q-factor of 8000.
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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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Compact Microring Resonator With 2 x 2 Tapered Multimode Interference Couplers
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Lightwave Technology. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 0733-8724 .- 1558-2213. ; 27:21, s. 4878-4883
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Compact microring resonator devices are realized by using a small SU-8 polymer strip waveguide that has an SU-8 polymer core (n similar to 1.573), an SiO2 buffer (n similar to 1.445), and an air cladding. Due to the high index contrast of the optical waveguide, a small bending radius (similar to 150 mu m) is used for the MRR. To enhance the coupling between the access optical waveguides and the microring, 2 x 2 multimode interference couplers are used. The measured spectral response of the through port shows a high extinction ratio of over 15 dB and a 3-dB bandwidth of about 0.38 nm (corresponding to a moderate Q-value of similar to 4500).
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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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Compact silicon-based wavelength-selective photonic integrated devices and the applications
- 2009
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Ingår i: SILICON PHOTONICS IV. - : SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. - 9780819474667
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In wavelength-division multiplexing systems, it is important to develop various wavelength-selective components to have flexible and reconfigurable nodes. When using conventional optical waveguides with low index contrast, the sizes of these wavelength-selective components are usually several cm(2), which is too large to integrate more components in a single wafer or chip. In order to improve the integration density and reduce the cost, it is desirable to minimize the component sizes. In our case, two kinds of strongly-confined optical waveguides on silicon wafer are considered for compact wavelength-selective devices. One is the popular silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowire and the other is SU-8 strip optical waveguide with an air cladding and a SiO2 insulator layer on a Si substrate. In this paper, we give a review of our recent work on wavelength-selective photonic integrated devices based on these two kinds of silicon-based optical waveguides with strong-confinements. Arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) and microring resonator (MRR), which are two typical wavelength-selective components are included. First we give a review for several new layouts for SOI-nanowire AWG to have a further size-reduction and our novel designs for diminishing the polarization dependency of AWGs. Secondly we present the design and fabrication of multimode interference (MMI) couplers for MRRs. A novel design method for tapered MMI couplers is presented and the diminishment of polarization in a MMI coupler is proposed by optimizing the tapered MMI section. We also present our experimental results on optical sensor combining MRRs and micro-fluid channel. The measured sensitivity is about 180nm/RIU.
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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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Highly sensitive sensor based on an ultra-high-Q Mach-Zehnder interferometer-coup led microring
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics. - 0740-3224 .- 1520-8540. ; 26:3, s. 511-516
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A high-Q Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI)-coupled microring is presented for optical sensing with high sensitivity and a large measurement range. By optimizing the length difference, between the two arms of the MZI coupler, the MZI-coupled microring with a high-Q factor and high extinction ratio is obtained. In the present example, the Q factor of the designed silicon-nanowire-based microring is as high as 1.8 x 10(5) when the silicon nanowire has a propagation loss L=2 dB/cm. Due to this high-Q factor, the sensitivity for the change Delta n of the effective refractive index is about 10(-5)-10(-6) by measuring the shift of the resonant wavelength. Because of the wavelength dependence of the coupling ratio of the MZI coupler, it is possible to have only one resonant wavelength with a high extinction ratio in a very large wavelength span [i.e., the quasi-free spectral range of the MZI-coupler microring], which offers a very large measurement range covering the refractive index change
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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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Proposal of a Coupled-Microring-Based Wavelength-Selective 1 x N Power Splitter
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1041-1135 .- 1941-0174. ; 21:21, s. 1630-1632
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A novel wavelength-selective 1 x N power splitter, which consists of a microring and N + 1 couplers, is presented. One coupler is for coupling the light signal from the input port into the microring and the other couplers are for coupling the signal light from the microring to the output ports. The channels with the resonant wavelength of the microring are dropped and split into output ports. The critical coupling condition to achieve a high extinction ratio is also given. By appropriately choosing the coupling coefficients for the input/output couplers, it is flexible to have a uniform or nonuniform power splitting as desired.
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- Dai, Daoxin, et al.
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Theoretical Investigation for Reducing Polarization Sensitivity in Si-Nanowire-Based Arrayed-Waveguide Grating (de)Multiplexer With Polarization-Beam-Splitters and Reflectors
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 0018-9197 .- 1558-1713. ; 45:5-6, s. 654-660
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A novel design for reducing polarization sensitivity in silicon-on-insulator-based arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) (de)multiplexer is presented. Each arrayed waveguide has two sections separated by a polarization beam splitter (PBS). These two sections have different core widths and length differences. With these PBSs, one polarization is reflected and the other one goes through. The through polarization enters the second section and is then reflected by a reflector at the end of the second section of the arrayed waveguide. The theoretical simulation shows that one can diminish greatly the polarization sensitivity of both the central channel wavelength and the channel spacing by optimizing the core width and length difference of the second section. The design procedure and formulas are given and an appropriate diffraction order is chosen to obtain a good fabrication tolerance. As an example, an ultrasmall (82.2 x 85.1 mu m(2)) AWG (de)multiplexer with eight channels and a channel spacing of 4 nm is designed to have minimized polarization sensitivity and Bragg-grating PBSs and photonic crystal reflectors are used.
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- Jiao, Y. Q., et al.
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Shortened Polarization Beam Splitters With Two Cascaded Multimode Interference Sections
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1041-1135 .- 1941-0174. ; 21:20, s. 1538-1540
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This letter presents a design for shortening the length of a polarization beam splitter (PBS) by using two cascaded multimode interference (MMI) sections with different widths. By optimizing the MMI parameters, a short PBS of good performance is achieved. The total length of the PBS is reduced to about 1/28 of that of a conventional design.
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- Sheng, Zhen, et al.
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Comparative Study of Losses in Ultrasharp Silicon-on-Insulator Nanowire Bends
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. - 1077-260X .- 1558-4542. ; 15:5, s. 1406-1412
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ultrasharp silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowire bends (with a bending radius of R < 2 mu m) are analyzed numerically. It is shown that the calculated bending losses for ultrasharp bends are overestimated when using a modal analysis method based on finite-difference method. In this case, reliable estimation of the bending loss can be made with a 3-D finite-difference time-domain (3-D-FDTD) method. By using 3-D-FDTD simulation, the losses in SOI nanowire bends with different structures and parameters are studied. By increasing the core width or height of the waveguide, one can reduce the bending loss at longer wavelengths for TE mode while the bending performance at shorter wavelengths degrades due to the multimode effect. Increasing the core height is much more effective to reduce the bending loss of TM mode than increasing core width. The relationship between the intrinsic Q-factor of a microring resonator and the bending radius is also obtained.
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- Tang, Yongbo, et al.
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Proposal for a Grating Waveguide Serving as Both a Polarization Splitter and an Efficient Coupler for Silicon-on-Insulator Nanophotonic Circuits
- 2009
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Ingår i: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1041-1135 .- 1941-0174. ; 21:1-4, s. 242-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A grating waveguide is introduced and designed to serve as both a polarization splitter and an efficient vertical coupler between a fiber and a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanophotonic waveguide. Through this grating waveguide, the light from the fiber can be efficiently coupled into an SOI chip where the two orthogonally polarized waves are separated to travel towards the opposite directions along the waveguide. According to our simulations, the optimized structure can give a high coupling efficiency of about 50% for both polarizations, as well as a large bandwidth of over 70 nm and a very low polarization crosstalk below -22 dB at the output ports.
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