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Broadband and fabrication-tolerant on-chip scalable mode-division multiplexing based on mode-evolution counter-tapered couplers

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Abstract

A broadband and fabrication-tolerant on-chip scalable mode-division multiplexing (MDM) scheme based on mode-evolution counter-tapered couplers is designed and experimentally demonstrated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Due to the broadband advantage offered by mode evolution, the two-mode MDM link exhibits a very large, 1dB bandwidth of >180nm, which is considerably larger than most of the previously reported MDM links whether they are based on mode-interference or evolution. In addition, the performance metrics remain stable for large-device width deviations from the designed valued by 60nm to 40 nm, and for temperature variations from 25°C to 75°C. This MDM scheme can be readily extended to higher-order mode multiplexing and a three-mode MDM link is measured with less than 10dB crosstalk from 1.46 to 1.64 μm wavelength range.

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