Design of ultra-compact low power all-optical Mach-Zehnder modulator by means of dispersion engineered slow light regime in photonic crystal

S. Bakhshi; M. K. Moravvej-Farshi; M. Ebnali-Heidari

doi:10.1117/12.921405

15 May 2012 Design of ultra-compact low power all-optical Mach-Zehnder modulator by means of dispersion engineered slow light regime in photonic crystal

S. Bakhshi, M. K. Moravvej-Farshi, M. Ebnali-Heidari

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Proceedings Volume 8434, Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI; 843418 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.921405
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We design an ultra-compact low power all-optical modulator by applying dispersion engineered slow-light waveguuide in photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer (PhC-MZI) arms, which are infiltrated by optofluidic having high nonlinearities. Nearly zero dispersion regime brings us a 22-μm long PhC-MZI to operate as a modulator with an input power as low as 3 mW/μm. By attaching a coupling section about 3.36 μm long and inserting the light through a directional coupler with the lenght of 2.1 μm, losing power from the input port has been decreased.

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S. Bakhshi, M. K. Moravvej-Farshi, and M. Ebnali-Heidari "Design of ultra-compact low power all-optical Mach-Zehnder modulator by means of dispersion engineered slow light regime in photonic crystal", Proc. SPIE 8434, Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI, 843418 (15 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.921405

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