2 x 2 Polymer Thermo-Optic Digital Optical Switch Using Total-Internal-Reflection in Bend-Free Waveguides

被引：11

作者：

Han, Young-Tak ^{[1
,2
]}

Shin, Jang-Uk ^{[1
]}

Park, Sang-Ho ^{[1
]}

Seo, Jun-Kyu ^{[4
]}

Lee, Hyung-Jong ^{[4
]}

Hwang, Wol-Yon ^{[3
]}

Park, Hyo-Hoon ^{[2
]}

Baek, Yongsoon ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] ETRI, Convergence Components & Mat Res Lab, Taejon 305700, South Korea

[2] Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Photon Comp Syst Lab, Taejon 305701, South Korea

[3] Lightron Fiber Opt Devices Inc, Taejon 306220, South Korea

[4] ChemOptics Inc, Taejon 305510, South Korea

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2012年 / 24卷 / 19期

关键词：

Bending; digital optical switch (DOS); multimode; polymer; thermo-optic; total-internal-reflection (TIR); CROSSTALK; SILICON; STATE;

D O I：

10.1109/LPT.2012.2210280

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We present a novel 2 x 2 polymer thermo-optic digital optical switch (DOS) using the total-internal-reflection (TIR) effect. The switch consists of four 1 x 2 TIR-DOSs cascaded with each other. These TIR-DOSs have two branched multimode waveguides and an offset heater electrode in the branched region. Our switch does not have any bent waveguides, and has tapered waveguides and single-mode waveguides only in the input-output fiber coupling region. The fabricated 2 x 2 TIR-DOSs exhibit excellent properties, with very low insertion losses of < 1.4 dB and switching isolations of > 50 dB in both turned-off and turned-on states.

引用

页码：1757 / 1760

页数：4

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