Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 17, Issue 4, 205(2021)

Thermal tuning of chirped SOI sidewall grating for tunable wavelength, delay, and bandwidth

Jia-yue DING, Xi-hua ZOU*, Fang ZOU, Wei PAN, Lian-shan YAN, and Bin LUO
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  • Center for Information Photonics & Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
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    In this work, we design a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) sidewall grating with tunable wavelength, delay, and bandwidth through thermal tuning. Incorporating uniform sidewall corrugations and a linearly chirped rib waveguide, the thermo- optic effect imposed on chirped rib waveguide changes the effective refractive index, due to the resultant of the temperature gradient. Consequently, tunable wavelength, delay, and bandwidth in SOI sidewall grating are achieved. In the numerical simulations, the designed SOI grating is demonstrated with a tunable wavelength from 1 560.7 nm to 1 561.9 nm, a tunable delay from 0 to 38 ps, and a tunable bandwidth from 1 nm to 1.5 nm.

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    DING Jia-yue, ZOU Xi-hua, ZOU Fang, PAN Wei, YAN Lian-shan, LUO Bin. Thermal tuning of chirped SOI sidewall grating for tunable wavelength, delay, and bandwidth[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2021, 17(4): 205

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    Paper Information

    Received: Apr. 14, 2020

    Accepted: May. 15, 2020

    Published Online: Sep. 2, 2021

    The Author Email: Xi-hua ZOU (zouxihua@swjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-021-0066-x

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