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Slow Light Investigation on Power Consumption of Lithium Niobate Phc Switch Based on Linear Electro-Optic Effect

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From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 41 Issue 2

Abstract

In this work, an optical switch based on electro-optic effect is reported. We used defect mode in two-dimensional photonic crystal made of Lithium Niobate. Under an applied voltage of 3 V, a refractive index change of −0.0702 is obtained which has led to a transmittance contrast about 60% for the ON state and a high extinction ratio of about 20 dB. Moreover, Slow light structure performance is investigated to optimize proposed optic switch. Due to elliptic shape of holes, the applied voltage is decreased to 0.5 V. Also, a refractive index change decrease around −0.0481, a transmittance contrast increase 65 %, and an extinction ratio increase by 5 dB have been observed. We used plan wave expansion and finite difference time domain methods to analyze the structures performances. It is seen that a defect mode shift about 40 nm and a switching length of 6.48 μm are obtained with drive voltage of 3 V for simple structure and only 0.5 V for slow light structure.

Keywords: photonic crystal waveguide; slow light; optic switch; Lithium Niobate; electro-optic effect

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre; www.namstct.org), New Delhi, India.

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Received: 2017-09-29
Accepted: 2018-11-25
Published Online: 2018-12-21
Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2017-0171
Keywords for this article
photonic crystal waveguide; slow light; optic switch; Lithium Niobate; electro-optic effect

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Devices
  3. Investigation of Optical Microring Resonator Based on Surface Plasmon Polariton
  4. A High Finesse Serial Coupled Microresonator Filter
  5. Investigations with All-Optical Binary to Gray Code Converter at 50 Gbps Data Rate
  6. A Novel Architecture of N × N Bidirectional Reconfigurable Multiwavelength Optical Cross Connect
  7. Fibers
  8. Optical Soliton Compression in Dispersion Decreasing Fibers with Relaxing Kerr Effect
  9. Integrated optics
  10. Slow Light Investigation on Power Consumption of Lithium Niobate Phc Switch Based on Linear Electro-Optic Effect
  11. Lasers
  12. Performance Analysis of Visible Light Communication Based on 16-QAM Companded OFDM Using Laser Diode
  13. Networks
  14. Transmission Performance and Cost Analysis of Multi-Carrier-based Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Access Network
  15. Investigation of Performance Affecting Parameters on Hybrid Passive Optical Networks
  16. Systems
  17. Transmission Performance of 112 Gb/s POLMUX QPSK Signal in OOK/DPSK WDM System
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