• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 7, 1171 (2020)
Changping Zhang1, Ming Zhang1、2, Yiwei Xie1、2、5、*, Yaocheng Shi1、2, Rajesh Kumar3, Roberto R. Panepucci4, and Daoxin Dai1、2、6、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical & Electromagnetic Research, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • 2Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China
  • 3Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667 Uttarakhand, India
  • 4Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer-CTI, Rodovia Dom Pedro I, km 143,6, Campinas 13069-901, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 5e-mail: yiweixie@zju.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: dxdai@zju.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.393513 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Changping Zhang, Ming Zhang, Yiwei Xie, Yaocheng Shi, Rajesh Kumar, Roberto R. Panepucci, Daoxin Dai. Wavelength-selective 2 × 2 optical switch based on a Ge2Sb2Te5-assisted microring[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(7): 1171 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A novel wavelength-selective 2×2 optical switch based on a Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST)-assisted microring-resonator (MRR) is proposed. The present GST-assisted MRR consists of two access optical waveguides and an MRR coupled with a bent GST-loaded silicon photonic waveguide. The 2×2 optical switch is switched ON or OFF by modifying the GST state to be crystalline or amorphous. In particular, the microring waveguide and the bent GST-loaded waveguide are designed to satisfy the phase-matching condition when the GST is crystalline. As a result, the MRR becomes highly lossy and the resonance peak is depressed significantly. On the other hand, when it is off, there is little coupling due to the significant phase mismatching. Consequently, one has a low-loss transmission at the drop port for the resonance wavelength. In this paper, the simulation using the three-dimensional finite-difference method shows that the extinction ratio of the designed photonic switch is 20 dB at the resonance wavelength, while the excess losses at the through port and drop port are 0.9 dB and 2 dB. In particular, the resonance wavelength changes little between the ON and OFF states, which makes it suitable for multichannel wavelength-division-multiplexing systems.
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    Changping Zhang, Ming Zhang, Yiwei Xie, Yaocheng Shi, Rajesh Kumar, Roberto R. Panepucci, Daoxin Dai. Wavelength-selective 2 × 2 optical switch based on a Ge2Sb2Te5-assisted microring[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(7): 1171
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