The application provides a single-channel
photonic crystal nonvolatile
optical switch of electrochemical metallization, and aims at solving the technical problems of large
power consumption and volatility of the existing
photonic crystal optical switch.The application comprises a
photonic crystal composed of a plurality of
silicon dielectric columns, a photonic
crystal waveguide with a TE forbidden band is arranged between the
silicon dielectric columns, an input port of the input photonic
crystal waveguide is an input end, an output port of the output photonic
crystal waveguide is an output end, the input end and the output end are perpendicular to each other, a
resonant cavity is arranged between the input photonic crystal waveguide and the output photonic crystal waveguide, a defect
dielectric column is arranged in the
resonant cavity, and the defect dielectric column is connected with a bias circuit for providing a bias
voltage.The application has the advantages of small structure size, fast switch
time response, high optical transmission efficiency, and suitability for large-scale
optical path integration; and the application is convenient to integrate, and can realize the electrically-controlled
optical switch of the TE carrier optical
signal in a
short distance and with high efficiency.