Simultaneous Mode and Wavelength Division Multiplexing On-Chip
Abstract
Significant effort in optical-fiber research has been put in recent years into realizing mode-division multiplexing (MDM) in conjunction with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) to enable further scaling of the communication bandwidth per fiber. In contrast almost all integrated photonics operate exclusively in the single-mode regime. MDM is rarely considered for integrated photonics due to the difficulty in coupling selectively to high-order modes which usually results in high inter-modal crosstalk. Here we show the first demonstration of simultaneous on-chip mode and wavelength division multiplexing with low modal crosstalk and loss. Our approach can potentially increase the aggregate data rate by many times for on-chip ultra-high bandwidth communications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.2378,
title = {Simultaneous Mode and Wavelength Division Multiplexing On-Chip},
author = {Lian-Wee Luo and Noam Ophir and Christine Chen and Lucas H. Gabrielli and Carl B. Poitras and Keren Bergman and Michal Lipson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2378},
year = {2013}
}