Compact SU8-silica Hybrid Thermo-optic Switch with Low Power Consumption

摘要：

　　We propose a novel Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MZI)type thermo-optic switch based on SU8-silica hybrid waveguide structures.The switch consists of a 1×2 power splitter,two transmission arms and a 2×1 power combiner.The input/output waveguides and the power splitter/combiner are realized by the conventional silica waveguides,while the two arms for the MZI consist of SU8 strip waveguides.Such hybrid SU8-Silica waveguide strucutures combines the advantages of the low propagation loss of the silica waveguides and the large thermo-optic coefficient of SU8.Due to the high thermo-optic coefficient of SU8,the length of the transmission arm can be dramatically reduced.

作者: Wei Peng Pengxin Chen Yaocheng Shi

作者单位: Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation Zhejiang University,Zijingang Campus,East Building No.5,Hangzhou 310058,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2014(2014年电磁学研究新进展学术研讨会)

会议地点: 广州

会议语种:英文

页码: 707-710

在线出版日期: 2014-08-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）