Improved performance of thermal-optic switch using polymer/silica hybrid and air trench waveguide structures.
By exploiting the polymer/silica hybrid and the air trench waveguide structures, we demonstrate a new type of low-power consuming and high-speed thermal-optic (TO) switch. Such a design provides an effective means to shorten the switching time of the TO switches, as well as to reduce the power consumption at the same time. This TO switch operated with less than 150 μs of switching time via a polymer/silica hybrid waveguide structure. Meanwhile, the power consumption was reduced to be 3.4 mW by introducing the air trench structure.
Yu-Fen
YF
Liu
Xi-Bin
XB
Wang
Jing-Wen
JW
Sun
Jian
J
Sun
Fei
F
Wang
Chang-Ming
CM
Chen
Xiao-Qiang
XQ
Sun
Zhan-Chen
ZC
Cui
Da-Ming
DM
Zhang