• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 41, Issue 7, 794 (2012)
LU Zhiyong*, WAN Lingyu, and CHAO Liangfang
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20124107.0794 Cite this Article
    LU Zhiyong, WAN Lingyu, CHAO Liangfang. Design and Simulation of Planar 4×4 Electrooptic Switches Based Ferroelectric Inverted Domains[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2012, 41(7): 794 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An integrated 4×4 planar electrooptic switch is designed based on the electrooptic effect in ferroelectric inverted domains. It integrated four minute halfparabola shaped and four parabola shaped deflectors with the same configurations in a ferroelectric wafer. To optimize the design of the parabola shaped deflectors, an appropriate electrooptic switch is provided. Its properties of switch and exchange are analyzed using the beam propagation method (BPM). Simulation results show that the 4×4 planar electrooptic switch is feasible and the beam deflection errors can be compensated in practice by adjusting applied electricfield. The size of the optical switch is 48 mm×2.2 mm×0.5 mm and its maximum applied electricfield is about 13.73 V/μm. It has potential applications in highspeed optical exchange systems.
    LU Zhiyong, WAN Lingyu, CHAO Liangfang. Design and Simulation of Planar 4×4 Electrooptic Switches Based Ferroelectric Inverted Domains[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2012, 41(7): 794
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