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WDM-compatible mode-division multiplexing on a silicon chip

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  • Lian-Wee Luo

    (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 428 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA)

  • Noam Ophir

    (Columbia University)

  • Christine P. Chen

    (Columbia University)

  • Lucas H. Gabrielli

    (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 428 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA)

  • Carl B. Poitras

    (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 428 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA)

  • Keren Bergmen

    (Columbia University)

  • Michal Lipson

    (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 428 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
    Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University)

Abstract

Significant effort in optical-fibre research has been put in recent years into realizing mode-division multiplexing (MDM) in conjunction with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) to enable further scaling of the communication bandwidth per fibre. In contrast, almost all integrated photonics operate exclusively in the single-mode regime. MDM is rarely considered for integrated photonics because of the difficulty in coupling selectively to high-order modes, which usually results in high inter-modal crosstalk. Here we show the first microring-based demonstration of on-chip WDM-compatible mode-division multiplexing with low modal crosstalk and loss. Our approach can potentially increase the aggregate data rate by many times for on-chip ultrahigh bandwidth communications.

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  • Lian-Wee Luo & Noam Ophir & Christine P. Chen & Lucas H. Gabrielli & Carl B. Poitras & Keren Bergmen & Michal Lipson, 2014. "WDM-compatible mode-division multiplexing on a silicon chip," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-7, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms4069
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4069
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    1. Meiting Song & John Steinmetz & Yi Zhang & Juniyali Nauriyal & Kevin Lyons & Andrew N. Jordan & Jaime Cardenas, 2021. "Enhanced on-chip phase measurement by inverse weak value amplification," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-7, December.
    2. Ki Youl Yang & Chinmay Shirpurkar & Alexander D. White & Jizhao Zang & Lin Chang & Farshid Ashtiani & Melissa A. Guidry & Daniil M. Lukin & Srinivas V. Pericherla & Joshua Yang & Hyounghan Kwon & Jess, 2022. "Multi-dimensional data transmission using inverse-designed silicon photonics and microcombs," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.

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