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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 20,
  • Issue 1,
  • pp. 92-
  • (2002)

Performance and Modeling of Advanced Ti: LiNbO3 Digital Optical Switches

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Abstract

High-performance Y-branch digital optical switches realized in Ti: LiNbO3 are presented. Their switching response functions have been optimized in terms of switch voltage and crosstalk ratio. The optimization is based on analyzing different types of waveguide shaping and switching arrangements using coupled mode theory and computer simulations. Excellent switching characteristics are achieved with devices exploiting a specially shaped waveguide branch in a dilated switch arrangement. Demonstrated performances include switching voltage as low as 9 V with crosstalk suppression better than 45 dB and fiber-to-fiber losses as low as 4 dB. Polarization independence with crosstalk suppression better than 40 dB over a 1520-to 1570-nm wavelength range is achieved for any applied switch voltage greater than 18 V. These optimized digital optical switches have further demonstrated the capability to reshape electrical input signals at switching rates of several hundred megahertz.

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