• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 7, Issue 1, 016002 (2025)
Xuelin Zhang1, Jiangbing Du1,*, Ke Xu2, and Zuyuan He1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Jiao Tong University, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai, China
  • 2Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shenzhen, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.7.1.016002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xuelin Zhang, Jiangbing Du, Ke Xu, Zuyuan He, "Waveguide superlattices with artificial gauge field toward colorless and low-crosstalk ultrahigh-density photonic integration," Adv. Photon. 7, 016002 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Dense waveguides are the basic building blocks for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Due to the rapidly increasing scale of PIC chips, high-density integration of waveguide arrays working with low crosstalk over broadband wavelength range is highly desired. However, the subwavelength regime of such structures has not been adequately explored in practice. We propose a waveguide superlattice design leveraging the artificial gauge field mechanism, corresponding to the quantum analog of field-induced n-“photon” resonances in semiconductor superlattices. This approach experimentally achieves -24 dB crosstalk suppression with an ultrabroad transmission bandwidth more than 500 nm for dual polarizations on the Si3N4 platform. The fabricated waveguide superlattices support high-speed signal transmission of 112 Gbit/s with high-fidelity signal-to-noise ratio profiles and bit error rates. This design, featuring a silica upper cladding, is compatible with standard metal back-end-of-the-line processes. Based on such a fundamental structure, which is readily transferable to other platforms, passive and active devices over versatile platforms can be realized with a significantly shrunk on-chip footprint, thus it holds great promise for significant reduction of the power consumption and cost in PICs.
    idΨndz+(1)nΔβΨn+C(Ψn+1+Ψn1)=nFΨn,

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    β=±Δβ2+4C2cos2(ka),

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    F=4π2ωAP2sin(2πzP),

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    idΨ˜ndz+Cn(Ψ˜n+1+Ψ˜n1)=0,

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    ceff(λ)λ=(1)n{Jn(ξ){c(λ)λ+c(λ)nλ[1n0(λ)/λn0(λ)/λ]}Jn1(ξ)c(λ)ξλ[1n0(λ)/λn0(λ)/λ]}.

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    ceff(a)(a)=(1)n{Jn(ξ)[c(a)(a)ndc(a)]+Jn1(ξ)c(a)2π2An0(λ)Pλ}.

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    Xuelin Zhang, Jiangbing Du, Ke Xu, Zuyuan He, "Waveguide superlattices with artificial gauge field toward colorless and low-crosstalk ultrahigh-density photonic integration," Adv. Photon. 7, 016002 (2025)
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