Silicon photonic chip for 16-channel wavelength division (de-)multiplexing in the O-band

Davis, Jordan A.; Li, Ang; Alshamrani, Naif; Fainman, Yeshaiahu

doi:10.1364/OE.397141

Title: Silicon photonic chip for 16-channel wavelength division (de-)multiplexing in the O-band

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a silicon photonic chip-scale 16-channel wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) operating in the O-band. The silicon photonic chip consists of a common-input bus waveguide integrated with a sequence of 16 spectral add-drop filters implemented by 4-port contra-directional Bragg couplers and resonant cladding modulated perturbations. The combination of these features reduces the spectral bandwidth of the filters and improves the crosstalk. An apodization of the cladding modulated perturbations between the bus and the add/drop waveguides is used to optimize the strength of the coupling coefficient in the propagation direction to reduce the intra-channel crosstalk on adjacent channels. The fabricated chip was validated experimentally with a measured intra-channel crosstalk of ∼−18.9 dB for a channel spacing of 2.6 nm. The multiplexer/demultiplexer chip was also experimentally tested with a 10 Gbps data waveform. The resulting eye-pattern indicates that this approach is suitable for datacenter WDM-based interconnects in the O-band with large aggregate bandwidths.

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; Alshamrani, Naif; Fainman, Yeshaiahu

Publication Date:: Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

OSTI Identifier:: 1643148

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Optics Express

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 28 Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087

Publisher:: Optical Society of America

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Davis, Jordan A., Li, Ang, Alshamrani, Naif, and Fainman, Yeshaiahu. Silicon photonic chip for 16-channel wavelength division (de-)multiplexing in the O-band.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Davis, Jordan A., Li, Ang, Alshamrani, Naif, & Fainman, Yeshaiahu. Silicon photonic chip for 16-channel wavelength division (de-)multiplexing in the O-band.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.397141

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                    Davis, Jordan A., Li, Ang, Alshamrani, Naif, and Fainman, Yeshaiahu. Fri .  
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@article{osti_1643148,

  title        = {Silicon photonic chip for 16-channel wavelength division (de-)multiplexing in the O-band},

  author       = {Davis, Jordan A. and Li, Ang and Alshamrani, Naif and Fainman, Yeshaiahu},

  abstractNote = {We experimentally demonstrate a silicon photonic chip-scale 16-channel wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) operating in the O-band. The silicon photonic chip consists of a common-input bus waveguide integrated with a sequence of 16 spectral add-drop filters implemented by 4-port contra-directional Bragg couplers and resonant cladding modulated perturbations. The combination of these features reduces the spectral bandwidth of the filters and improves the crosstalk. An apodization of the cladding modulated perturbations between the bus and the add/drop waveguides is used to optimize the strength of the coupling coefficient in the propagation direction to reduce the intra-channel crosstalk on adjacent channels. The fabricated chip was validated experimentally with a measured intra-channel crosstalk of ∼−18.9 dB for a channel spacing of 2.6 nm. The multiplexer/demultiplexer chip was also experimentally tested with a 10 Gbps data waveform. The resulting eye-pattern indicates that this approach is suitable for datacenter WDM-based interconnects in the O-band with large aggregate bandwidths.},

  doi          = {10.1364/OE.397141},

  journal      = {Optics Express},

  number       = 16,

  volume       = 28,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020},

  month        = {Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020}

}

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