Proposal of optical mode switch configuration for four modes
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Takakura, Ryuta; Fujino, Asuka; Tanaka, Tatsushi; Hamamoto, Kiichi
- Source
- Technical Digest of the Eighteenth Microoptics Conference Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2013 18th. :1-2 Oct, 2013
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical switches
Optical crosstalk
Crosstalk
High-speed optical techniques
Optical fibers
- Language
We propose optical mode switch configuration for four modes for the first time. It switches one mode to another among 0 th to 3 rd modes, while keeping compact size of 0.033mm 2 including input/output access waveguides. Less than −19dB mode-crosstalk is expected in the present configuration.