Silicon photonics integrated dynamic polarization controller

Xuyang Wang; Yanxiang Jia; Xubo Guo; Jianqiang Liu; Shaofeng Wang; Wenyuan Liu; Fangyuan Sun; Jun Zou; Yongmin Li

doi:10.3788/COL202220.041301

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 20, Issue 4, 041301 (2022)

Silicon photonics integrated dynamic polarization controller

Xuyang Wang^1、2、*, Yanxiang Jia¹, Xubo Guo¹, Jianqiang Liu¹, Shaofeng Wang³, Wenyuan Liu⁴, Fangyuan Sun⁵, Jun Zou⁶, and Yongmin Li^1、2、**

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¹State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

³College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁴School of Science, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China

⁵School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore

⁶College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China

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Xuyang Wang, Yanxiang Jia, Xubo Guo, Jianqiang Liu, Shaofeng Wang, Wenyuan Liu, Fangyuan Sun, Jun Zou, Yongmin Li. Silicon photonics integrated dynamic polarization controller[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(4): 041301 Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

We designed and demonstrated experimentally a silicon photonics integrated dynamic polarization controller. The overall size of the dynamic polarization controller on chip is

2.830 mm \times 0.210 mm \times 1 mm

. The modulation bandwidth is 30 kHz. By using a variable step simulated annealing approach, we achieve a dynamic polarization extinction ratio greater than 25 dB. A numerical simulation method was used to optimize the relevant parameters of the dynamic polarization controller. It is expected that the dynamic polarization controller can be utilized in fiber communication systems or silicon photonics integrated quantum communication systems to minimize the size and decrease the cost further.

Keywords

dynamic polarization controller dynamic polarization extinction ratio simulated annealing approach