Large-Scale Crosstalk-Corrected Thermo-Optic Phase Shifter Arrays in Silicon Photonics
Abstract
We introduce a thermo-optic phase shifter (TOPS) array architecture with independent phase control of each phase shifter for large-scale and high-density photonic integrated circuits with two different control schemes: pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and pulse width modulation (PWM). We realize a compact spiral TOPS and a 288-element high-density row-column TOPS array with this architecture and drive TOPS with waveforms of both control schemes and of different array sizes. We present a thermal excitation model and a finite difference method-based simulation to simulate large-scale TOPS arrays and compare both schemes experimentally and theoretically. We also analyze the effects of thermal crosstalk in the realized TOPS array and implement a thermal crosstalk correction algorithm with the developed model. The high-density TOPS array architecture and the thermal crosstalk correction algorithm pave the way for high-density TOPS arrays with independent phase control in large-scale photonic integrated circuits interfaced with electronics limited in voltage swing and bandwidth.
Additional Information
© 2022 IEEE. Manuscript received 3 February 2022; revised 4 June 2022; accepted 13 June 2022. Date of publication 12 July 2022; date of current version 27 July 2022. This work was supported by the Caltech Rothenberg Innovation Initiative (RI2) program.Attached Files
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- 115505
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- 10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3189965
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20220712-193859173
- Rothenberg Innovation Initiative (RI2)
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2022-07-12Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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