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Low-loss and polarization insensitive 32 × 4 optical switch for ROADM applications

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Integrated switches play a crucial role in the development of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers(ROADMs)that have greater flexibility and compactness,ultimately leading to robust single-chip solutions.Despite decades of research on switches with various structures and platforms,achieving a balance between dense integration,low insertion loss(IL),and polarization-dependent loss(PDL)remains a significant challenge.In this paper,we propose and demonstrate a 32 × 4 optical switch using high-index doped silica glass(HDSG)for ROADM applications.This switch is designed to route any of the 32 inputs to the express ports or drop any channels from 32 inputs to the target 4 drop ports or add any of the 4 ports to any of the 32 express channels.The switch comprises 188 Mach-Zehnder Interferometer(MZI)type switch elements,88 optical vias for the 44 optical bridges,and 618 waveguide-waveguide crossings with three-dimensional(3D)structures.At 1550nm,the fiiber-to-fiber loss for each express channel is below 2 dB,and across the C and L bands,below 3 dB.For each input channel to all 4 drop/add channels at 1550 nm,the loss is less than 3.5 dB and less than 5 dB across the C and L bands.The PDLs for all express and input channels to the 4 drop/add channels are below 0.3 dB over the C band,and the crosstalk is under-50 dB for both the C and L bands.

Xiaotian Zhu、Xiang Wang、Yanlu Huang、Liyan Wu、Chunfei Zhao、Mingzhu Xiao、Luyi Wang、Roy Davidson、Yanni Ou、Brent E.Little、Sai T.Chu

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Department of Physics,City University of Hong Kong,Tat Chee Avenue,Hong Kong,China

QXP Technologies Inc.,NO.15th Shanglinyuan 1st Road,Xi'an,Shaanxi 710119,China

State Key Laboratory of Information of Photonics and Optical Communications,School of Electronic Engineering,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876,China

City University of Hong Kong中央高校基本科研业务费专项

96103952023RC50

2024

光:科学与应用(英文版)
中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所

光:科学与应用(英文版)

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ISSN:2095-5545
年,卷(期):2024.13(5)
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