title: Theoretical time-domain study of self-imaging properties in a multimode interference coupler.
abstract: We report a theoretical and numerical study of self-imaging properties, including time domain and pulse spreading, caused by modal group-delay dispersion in generalized N x N multimode interference devices achieved by using a mode-propagation analysis and finite-difference time-domain method. It was found that the spatial self-imaging condition does not realize temporal self-imaging but lets waveforms separate whose shape depends on input position and input field distribution. Pulse spreading, which is sensitive to beam diameter, has a very large variation (420 fs) among input positions as well as rising to a very high 900 fs in response to a 21 fs and spatially Gaussian pulse for the conveniently smallest size with 10 channels.
authors.affiliation: Networks Development Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka, Japan. hamada.hidenobu@jp.panasonic.com
authors.forename: Hidenobu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hamada