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Richard Soref. Design of low-energy on-chip electro-optical 1 × M wavelength-selective switches[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(4): 340
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Fig. 4. Waveguide diagram of 1×4 tree utilizing MZI constituent 1×2 switches composed of a pair of three-waveguide couplers, each containing a central nanobeam.
Fig. 5. Waveguide diagram of 1×4 tree using asymmetric contra-couplers as 1×2 elemental switches, each switch containing an offset dual-grating coupling region.
Fig. 6. Overall spectral response of the switches in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 in the zero bias state (unshifted spectrum) and in the full-bias state (shifted spectrum).
Fig. 7. Passive demultiplexing of a multiwavelength input stream using a sequence of dedicated-resonance 2×2 devices (the example of the Fig. 3 structure).