20 September 2022 Multi-frequency complete optical isolation based on indirect interband transition
Lili Wang, Shengying Lai, Ye Liu
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Abstract

Indirect interband photonic transition is an important approach to achieve on-chip complete optical signal isolation. We demonstrate that the operational isolation bandwidth based on this effect can be increased by utilizing non-interfering transition channels obtained from the process of transition channel engineering. Multiple optical modes can be excited through non-interfering channels and be absorbed by matched filters without interfering with each other, thus achieving multi-frequency complete optical isolation. With two non-interfering transition channels, an optical isolator design that achieves complete isolation at two frequencies is proposed as an example. The potential design of multi-frequency isolator is also discussed. All the results are verified with finite-difference time-domain simulation.

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Lili Wang, Shengying Lai, and Ye Liu "Multi-frequency complete optical isolation based on indirect interband transition," Optical Engineering 61(9), 097103 (20 September 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.9.097103
Received: 2 June 2022; Accepted: 7 September 2022; Published: 20 September 2022
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KEYWORDS
Optical isolators

Modulation

Channel projecting optics

Waveguides

Geometrical optics

Absorption filters

Transmittance

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