Authors: Minming Geng*, Lianxi Jia, Lei Zhang, Lin Yang, Ping Chen, Tong Wang, and Yuliang Liu
Optoelectronic System Laboratory, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China
*Corresponding author: eric@semi.ac.cn

Abstract: We designed and fabricated a four-channel reconfigurable optical
add-drop multiplexer based on silicon photonic wire waveguide controlled
through thermo-optic effect. The effective footprint of the device is about
1000×500 μm2. The minimum insertion loss is about 10.7 dB and the tuning
bandwidth about 17 nm. The average tuning power efficiency is about 6.187
mW/nm and the tuning speed about 24.4 kHz. The thermo-optic
polarization-rotation effect is firstly reported in this paper.
2009 Optical Society of America

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