Based on side-port multimode interference coupler, a novel design of 1.31/1.55-μm wavelength multiplexer/demutiplexer on SOI platform with conventional channel waveguides is proposed and analyzed by using wide-angle beam propagation method. With a 25.9μm long ultra-short MMI section, nearly an order of magnitude shorter than that of the previously reported 1.31/1.55-μm wavelength MMI splitters on SOI, simulation results exhibit contrasts of 28dB and 25dB at wavelength 1.31 and 1.55 μm, respectively, and the insertion losses are both below 0.55dB. Meanwhile, the analysis shows that the proposed structure has larger fabrication tolerances than restricted MMI based structures and the present design methodology also applies to split other wavelengths and in different material platforms, such as InP, GaAs and PLC guides, etc.

Date Published: 1 May 2014
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9133, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits IV, 91330Y (1 May 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2051849

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9133:
Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits IV
Laurent Vivien; Seppo Honkanen; Lorenzo Pavesi; Stefano Pelli; Jung Hun Shin, Editor(s)