Spiral waveguide grating auxiliary reverse coupler type optical dispersion delay line

Abstract

The invention relates to a spiral waveguide grating auxiliary reverse coupler type optical dispersion delay line, which comprises a SiO2 cladding, a horizontally arranged waveguide layer is arranged in the SiO2 cladding, and the waveguide layer is prepared from a Si material and comprises four transverse straight waveguides, two S-shaped bent waveguides, two sections of spiral loss lines and a spiral waveguide chirp grating auxiliary reverse coupler. The transverse wide straight waveguide on the left side serves as the input end of the reverse coupler, the transverse narrow straight waveguide serves as the output end of the reverse coupler, and two ports are connected with the reverse coupler through a pair of S-shaped bent waveguides; the left end of the first straight waveguide is an input port of the dispersion delay line, and the left end of the second straight waveguide is an output port of the dispersion delay line; the third straight waveguide and the fourth straight waveguide serve as front buffer areas, and the right ends of the third straight waveguide and the fourth straight waveguide are connected with the left ends of the spiral single-side-wall modulation waveguide grating and the spiral strip-shaped / conical waveguide respectively.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a delay line, in particular to a spiral waveguide grating assisted reverse coupler type optical dispersion delay line, which belongs to the technical field of optical communication. Background technique [0002] With the rapid development of optical communication technology in the direction of high speed and large capacity, the requirements for efficiency and accuracy of information transmission and processing are getting higher and higher. Dispersion delay technology with large dispersion value has become the key to improving the performance of information systems. The optical dispersion delay line can make the output optical signal have a group delay that varies with the wavelength, and the delay value and wavelength generally conform to a linear change relationship, which can be applied to dispersion compensation, optical buffering, optical true delay network, and integrated microwave photonics. Signal generation and process...

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Problems solved by technology

Among them, the microring resonator and photonic crystal waveguide are affected by the high insertion loss of the device itself, so it is difficult to be practical in the actual photonic chip; when the single-waveguide Bragg chirped grating adopts a spiral on-chip layout, it can be realized in a small device size. Larger total delay and high dispersion value, however, this reflective dispersion delay line requires an external independent circulator or an on-chip optical splitter to convert it into a two-port device in order to separate the reflected signal, the former will increase the system The complexity is not conducive to miniaturization, and the latter will introduce an additional 3dB insertion loss; another dispersion delay line based on a grating-assisted reverse coupler cleverly uses a double waveguide structure to replace a single waveguide with a reverse coupling The reflective output mode of the grating effectively solves the separation problem of the output signal. However, the need for a large dispersion value inevitably requires an increase in the length of the reverse coupling region of the device, which greatly increases the difficulty of integration under the limited chip size.

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