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中国物理学会期刊

基于薄膜铌酸锂定制化多模干涉的宽带90°光混频与模式分离集成器件的设计

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250725

Design of broadband 90° optical mixing and mode-separation integrated device based on customized multi-mode interference of thin-film lithium niobate

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.74.20250725
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  • 90°光混频器是无线相干光通信系统接收端的关键器件, 在提升接收端灵敏度和抗干扰能力方面发挥着重要作用. 传统的90°光混频器存在对精度要求高、体积大、受限于模式失配、偏振敏感和功能单一等缺点. 为解决上述问题且进一步实现器件的多功能化, 在铌酸锂平台基于多模干涉(multimode Interference, MMI)结构, 设计了兼具90°光混频和模式分离功能的多功能集成器件. 该器件在功能上具备良好的可扩展性, 在性能上均优于传统结构, 具有低损耗、高精度和宽带宽的特点, 并通过容差分析验证了器件在较大工艺误差范围内仍能保持优异的性能, 展现了较高的工艺容差性和可靠性. 该器件可同时应用于大规模集成光学中, 为高性能片上光通信系统提供了新技术.

     

    90°optical mixer, as an essential part of coherent optical communication and heterodyne detection, improves polarization discrimination and anti-interference capabilities, increases receiver sensitivity, and permits demodulation of higher-order modulation forms. The disadvantages of traditional 90° optical mixers, however, include their high precision needs, size, mode mismatch restrictions, polarization sensitivity, and single functionality. Utilizing a lithium niobate platform, a multimode interference (MMI) structure, and a micro-thermoelectric electrode array, and with the help of the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, a multipurpose device that combines 90° optical mixing and mode separation capabilities is designed in this work. According to the results, when no voltage is applied across the micro-thermoelectric electrodes, the multipurpose device acts as a 90° optical mixer. The common-mode rejection ratios of all four outputs are all above –30 dB, phase errors are below 4°, and the losses in the wavelength range of 1520–1580 nm exceed –13.862 dB. When a voltage is applied across the micro-thermoelectric electrodes, TE0, TE1, TE2, and TE3 modes are separated by the multipurpose device acting as a mode splitter. In addition to controlling crosstalk fluctuation within 8.8 dB, the minimum loss divergence between modes is less than 0.024 dB. Research findings indicate that the physical characteristics of optical field interference within the MMI structure enable perfect phase matching and energy distribution across a wide spectrum range, even when no voltage is supplied across the micro-thermoelectric electrode terminals. By controlling the interference superposition process inside the multi-mode region and improving broadband 90° optical mixing parameters, the stable phase-matching conditions are maintained across the wide spectrum. The lithium niobate-based linear electro-optic effect (Pockels effect) modifies the waveguide refractive index distribution through an external electric field when a voltage is applied across the micro-thermoelectrodes. By changing the light field’s coupling path and propagation mode inside the MMI structure, the mode-separating integrator can precisely achieve mode separation, thereby confirming the efficiency of the electro-optic effect in optical functional control, which meets the isolation requirements for various mode optical signals. Furthermore, a systematical tolerance analysis of the device’s width and length is carried out, demonstrating how structural dimensional deviations affect the mode coupling efficiency and optical field interference circumstances. The integrated broadband 90° optical mixer and mode splitter device described in this paper has excellent process tolerance properties.

     

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