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Broadband and fabrication-tolerant on-chip scalable mode-division multiplexing based on mode-evolution
Abstract:
A broadband and fabrication-tolerant on-chip scalable mode-division multiplexing (MDM) scheme based on mode-evolution counter-tapered couplers is designed and experimentally demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Due to the broadband advantage offered by mode evolution, the two-mode MDM link exhibits a very large, -1 dB bandwidth of >180 nm, which is considerably larger than most of the previously reported MDM links whether they are based on mode-interference or evolution. In addition, the performance metrics remain stable for large-device width deviations from the designed valued by -60 nm to 40 nm, and for temperature variations from -25°C to 75°C. This MDM scheme can be readily extended to higher-order mode multiplexing and a three-mode MDM link is measured with less than -10 dB crosstalk from 1.46 to 1.64 μm wavelength range.
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