Optical 90° hybrid based on silicon-on-insulator 4×4 multimode interference coupler for integrated coherent receiver application

Author

Liang Xuerui ; Ma Weidong ; Jiang Xiong ; Chen Zheng ; Shi Chuan

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Opt. Commun. Technol. & Networks, Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An optical 90° hybrid based on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) 4×4 multimode interference(MMI) coupler is designed and simulated for the application of integrated coherent receiver(ICR). The beam propagation method(BPM) is used to verify the performance of the device. The 4×4 MMI coupler show good performance over C-band of TM mode with wavelength dependent loss(WDL) <;0.3 dB, output power imbalance <;0.35dB, phase error better than 2°.

Keywords

light propagation; optical couplers; optical losses; optical receivers; silicon-on-insulator; BPM; ICR; MMI coupler; SOI; Si; WDL; beam propagation method; integrated coherent receiver; multimode interference coupler; optical hybrid; phase error; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength dependent loss; Adaptive optics; Couplers; Integrated optics; Optical coupling; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Integrated coherent receiver; Multimode Interference; Optical 90° hybrid; Silicon-on-Insulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617239

Filename

6617239