Single-mode and ultralow loss bent waveguides

Mou Bai; Boxia Yan; Yan Qi; Yanwei Wang; Yuanyuan Fan; Yu Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2590853

18 March 2021 Single-mode and ultralow loss bent waveguides

Mou Bai, Boxia Yan, Yan Qi, Yanwei Wang, Yuanyuan Fan, Yu Wang

Proceedings Volume 11780, Global Intelligent Industry Conference 2020; 1178022 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2590853
Event: Global Intelligent Industry Conference 2020, 2020, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

A novel ultralow loss bent waveguide for single-mode operation was designed based on the Euler spiral. The proposed 180° bend (U-bend) was composed of two identical 90° Euler bends with gradient width from 1.6μm to 0.45μm and a 0.45μm wide, 2μm long strip waveguide. The proposed U-bend had ultralow losses (<−0.0005dB) and very low mode excitation ratios (MERs) of high-order modes (<−35dB) over a broad wavelength-band by lumerical simulation software. The effective radius R_eff of the designed U-bend was as small as 42.547μm and the transmission ratio of fundamental-mode was 0.99988 that almost equal to 1. After simulation and computation, only the fundamental-mode could be retained and propagated in the designed U-bend waveguide with ultralow loss.

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Mou Bai, Boxia Yan, Yan Qi, Yanwei Wang, Yuanyuan Fan, and Yu Wang "Single-mode and ultralow loss bent waveguides", Proc. SPIE 11780, Global Intelligent Industry Conference 2020, 1178022 (18 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2590853

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