Fine-Resolution Silicon Photonic Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Hybrid Multimode Racetrack Resonators

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Hauptverfasser: Cohen, Lucas M., Fatema, Saleha, Wankhade, Vivek V., Lingaraju, Navin B., Zhang, Bohan, Onural, Deniz, Popovic, Milos, Weiner, Andrew M.
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author Cohen, Lucas M.
Fatema, Saleha
Wankhade, Vivek V.
Lingaraju, Navin B.
Zhang, Bohan
Onural, Deniz
Popovic, Milos
Weiner, Andrew M.
author_facet Cohen, Lucas M.
Fatema, Saleha
Wankhade, Vivek V.
Lingaraju, Navin B.
Zhang, Bohan
Onural, Deniz
Popovic, Milos
Weiner, Andrew M.
contents In this work, we describe a procedure for synthesizing racetrack resonators with large quality factors and apply it to realize a multi-channel wavelength-selective switch (WSS) on a silicon photonic chip. We first determine the contribution of each component primitive to propagation loss in a racetrack resonator and use this data to develop a model for the frequency response of arbitrary order, coupled-racetrack channel dropping filters. We design second-order racetrack filters based on this model and cascade multiple such filters to form a 1x7 WSS. We find good agreement between our model and device performance with second-order racetrack that have ~1 dB of drop-port loss, ~2 GHz FWHM linewidth, and low optical crosstalk due to the quick filter roll-off of ~ 5.3 dB/GHz. Using a control algorithm, we show three-channel operation of our WSS with a channel spacing of only 10 GHz. Owing to the high quality factor and quick roll-off of our filter design, adjacent channel crosstalk is measured to be <-25 dB for channels spaced on a 10 GHz grid. As a further demonstration, we use five of seven WSS channels to perform a demultiplexing operation on both an 8 GHz and a 10 GHz grid. These results suggest that a low-loss WSS with fine channel resolution can be realized in a scalable manner using the silicon photonics platform.
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spellingShingle Fine-Resolution Silicon Photonic Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Hybrid Multimode Racetrack Resonators
Cohen, Lucas M.
Fatema, Saleha
Wankhade, Vivek V.
Lingaraju, Navin B.
Zhang, Bohan
Onural, Deniz
Popovic, Milos
Weiner, Andrew M.
Optics
Applied Physics
In this work, we describe a procedure for synthesizing racetrack resonators with large quality factors and apply it to realize a multi-channel wavelength-selective switch (WSS) on a silicon photonic chip. We first determine the contribution of each component primitive to propagation loss in a racetrack resonator and use this data to develop a model for the frequency response of arbitrary order, coupled-racetrack channel dropping filters. We design second-order racetrack filters based on this model and cascade multiple such filters to form a 1x7 WSS. We find good agreement between our model and device performance with second-order racetrack that have ~1 dB of drop-port loss, ~2 GHz FWHM linewidth, and low optical crosstalk due to the quick filter roll-off of ~ 5.3 dB/GHz. Using a control algorithm, we show three-channel operation of our WSS with a channel spacing of only 10 GHz. Owing to the high quality factor and quick roll-off of our filter design, adjacent channel crosstalk is measured to be <-25 dB for channels spaced on a 10 GHz grid. As a further demonstration, we use five of seven WSS channels to perform a demultiplexing operation on both an 8 GHz and a 10 GHz grid. These results suggest that a low-loss WSS with fine channel resolution can be realized in a scalable manner using the silicon photonics platform.
title Fine-Resolution Silicon Photonic Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Hybrid Multimode Racetrack Resonators
topic Optics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17222