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Silicon chip-scale space-division multiplexing: from devices to system

  • Yu Yu
  • Chunlei Sun
  • Xinliang ZhangEmail author
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Abstract

Space-division multiplexing (SDM) technique has attracted increasing attentions recently, because it provides an effective way to increase transmission capacity. With the continuous and exponential increase in data demands, high-density integration of silicon photonic components is of significant interest in terms of link price, performance and power consumption. The multimode/mutlicore devices applied to achieve diverse functionalities are key building blocks to construct a chip-scale SDM system based on a silicon on insulator (SOI) platform. This study reviews the recent progress of multimode/multicore devices, which enable coupling, multiplexing/demultiplexing, transmitting switching, as well as modulation and detection. Based on these devices, a complete on-chip SDM system is constructed and discussed.

Keywords

integrated optics devices space-division multiplexing optical switching devices 
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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61275072, 61475050, 61775073), New Century Excellent Talent Project in Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. NCET-13-0240), and Director fund of WNLO and Nature Science Foundation of Hubei Province, China (Grant No. 2016CFB416).

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  1. 1.Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electrical InformationHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina

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