CN112764247A - Lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator which comprises a first interference arm (1), a second interference arm (2), a first coupler (3) and a second coupler (4) which are integrally formed, wherein the first coupler (3) and the second coupler (4) are respectively formed at two ends of the first interference arm (1) and the second interference arm (2), the first interference arm (1) and the second interference arm (2) at least comprise a reciprocal waveguide and a non-reciprocal waveguide along the length direction, and the optical isolator comprises: the length of the reciprocal waveguide of the first interference arm (1) is different from that of the reciprocal waveguide of the second interference arm (2); the nonreciprocal waveguide includes a magneto-optical waveguide and a lithium niobate waveguide, which are formed side by side in the width direction. The invention has the characteristics of high isolation, high waveguide coupling efficiency, small device size, easy integration and the like.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of micro-nano photoelectronics integration, in particular to a lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator.
Background
With the development of the information age, the performance requirements for fiber optic communication modules, links, and systems are also gradually increasing in order to better meet the "explosively increasing" information transmission needs thereof. In the optical path, reflected light in the opposite direction to the forward propagating light is generated for various reasons, and for example, when light is coupled into an optical fiber, reflected light in the opposite direction to the original propagating light is generated at the end faces and points due to the presence of connectors and fusion splices. When the photons of the reflected wave return to the device, the photons and the semiconductor material perform secondary action to interfere the normal carrier distribution of the luminescent material, so that self-coupling effect and self-excitation effect are generated between optical path systems, the generation of light with other wavelengths and modes is caused, the transmission stability is damaged, and various adverse effects are brought to the device: for a directly modulated laser, reflected waves can bring chirp to the laser, so that severe fluctuation of a light source signal is caused, the modulation bandwidth is reduced, long-distance transmission of a high-speed signal is not facilitated, and the laser can be even burnt in severe cases; for the optical fiber amplifier, the existence of the reflected wave can increase the noise intensity, thereby reducing the transmission signal-to-noise ratio; for an analog signal transmission system, the anti-electromagnetic wave interference capability of the analog signal transmission system is poor, and reflected waves can seriously affect the communication quality; for a coherent optical communication system, reflected waves increase the spectral width of a carrier signal and cause frequency drift, so that the system cannot meet the conditions of a heterodyne method and cannot work normally.
An optical isolator is a device that allows an optical signal to propagate only in one direction and blocks reflected light, and is called an optical isolator, which is similar to a diode in a circuit and can be used to prevent the reflected light generated in an optical path due to various reasons from adversely affecting forward-transmitted light. Therefore, the optical communication system needs to add isolators at these ports, so that the normal operation of the system can be effectively stabilized, and the transmission quality of signals can be ensured. The indexes for measuring the performance of the optical isolator comprise insertion loss, reverse isolation, return loss, 3dB isolation bandwidth, passband bandwidth, polarization-related loss, temperature characteristics and the like, and in order to enable the optical isolator to play a better effect in a system, the characteristics of high reverse isolation, high working bandwidth, high return loss, high stability and reliability, low insertion loss and the like are the main development directions of the optical isolator.
The lithium niobate has excellent electro-optic coefficient, and when the incident light intensity is small, the electric polarization intensity of the crystal and the incident light field intensity can be described by a linear relation. Under the action of strong light, the electric polarization intensity of the medium and the intensity of incident light have a power series relationship, and the higher-order term of the power series cannot be ignored, which indicates that new frequency radiation is generated when the light is incident into the medium. Based on the excellent optical characteristics of lithium niobate, the optical effects of frequency doubling, sum frequency, difference frequency, parametric oscillation and the like of incident light can be realized. Currently, optical devices made of lithium niobate bulk materials have been commercialized, but these devices have the disadvantages of large device size and low integration level, and an integrated optical platform similar to a Silicon On Insulator (SOI) structure is urgently needed to realize on-chip integration of multifunctional devices.
With the progress of micro-nano optoelectronics in recent years, optoelectronic devices are developing towards miniaturization and integration, people can see the development prospect of an optical communication system in the aspect of on-chip integration, and the goal of realizing photoelectric fusion is to be on the spot. However, the integration of complex active devices on photonic integrated chips is hampered by the lack of an efficient and practical method of integrating optical isolators.
Disclosure of Invention
Technical problem to be solved
Aiming at the problems, the invention provides a lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator which is used for at least partially solving the technical problems of low reverse isolation, low waveguide coupling efficiency, large device size and the like of the traditional optical isolator.
(II) technical scheme
The invention provides a lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator, which comprises a first interference arm 1, a second interference arm 2, a first coupler 3 and a second coupler 4 which are integrally formed, wherein the first coupler 3 and the second coupler 4 are respectively formed at two ends of the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2, the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 at least comprise a reciprocal waveguide and a nonreciprocal waveguide along the length direction, and the lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator comprises: the length of the reciprocal waveguide of the first interference arm 1 is different from that of the reciprocal waveguide of the second interference arm 2; the nonreciprocal waveguide includes a magneto-optical waveguide and a lithium niobate waveguide, which are formed side by side in the width direction.
Further, the difference in length between the reciprocal waveguides in the first and second interference arms 1 and 2 causes a pi/2 +2m pi phase shift in the two beams, where m is an integer.
Further, the magneto-optical material of the magneto-optical waveguide is a magneto-optical active material with a large Faraday coefficient, and comprises a doped rare-earth iron garnet material.
Further, the magneto-optical material is cerium-doped yttrium iron garnet.
Furthermore, the lower cladding of the optical isolator is made of silicon oxide material, the substrate is made of lithium niobate material, and the upper cladding is made of air, silicon oxide material or other semiconductor material with the refractive index smaller than that of the lithium niobate.
Further, the first coupler 3 and the second coupler 4 are lithium niobate strip waveguides, wherein the first coupler 3 divides the forward transmitted light into two same beams of light, and the second coupler 4 combines the two beams of light into one beam of light and outputs the light through an output end of the light.
Further, the first coupler 3 and the second coupler 4 include a 1 × 2 directional coupler, a Y-type waveguide coupler, and a 1 × 2 multimode interference coupler.
Further, the magnetic field on the non-reciprocal waveguide is a vertical magnetic field.
Further, the reciprocal waveguide has a height of 300 to 700nm and a width of 400 to 1000 nm.
Further, the nonreciprocal waveguide has a height of 300-700 nm and a width of 400-1000 nm, wherein the magneto-optical waveguide has a width of 50-950 nm.
(III) advantageous effects
According to the lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator provided by the invention, the transmission light in different directions passes through the magneto-optical waveguide to generate irreversible nonreciprocal phase shift, and the transmission light passes through the lithium niobate interference arms with different lengths to generate reversible reciprocal phase shift, so that the interference principle of coherent light is utilized, the mutual cancellation and weakening in the reverse direction are realized, and the optical isolation in a larger degree is realized; lithium niobate material and Ce: YIG material has very similar refractive index, the mode fields of light transmitted in the two waveguides are almost the same under the same size, the mode fields can be butted without loss, and the coupling efficiency is high; the lithium niobate waveguide magneto-optical isolator designed based on the invention realizes the optical isolator on a lithium niobate platform, enriches the diversity of lithium niobate devices and provides a thought for realizing the monolithic integration of various devices on a lithium niobate wafer.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a structure of a lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cross-section of a reciprocal waveguide and a fundamental mode field distribution of a transverse mode in a lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cross-section of a nonreciprocal waveguide and a fundamental mode field distribution of a transverse mode in a lithium niobate optical isolator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a graph schematically showing simulation results of forward and reverse light transmission characteristics in a lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to specific embodiments and the accompanying drawings.
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator, please refer to fig. 1, including first interference arm 1, second interference arm 2, first coupler 3 and second coupler 4 that are integrally formed, first coupler 3 and second coupler 4 are respectively formed at two ends of first interference arm 1 and second interference arm 2, first interference arm 1 and second interference arm 2 all include reciprocal waveguide, non-reciprocal waveguide along the length direction at least, wherein: the length of the reciprocal waveguide of the first interference arm 1 is different from that of the reciprocal waveguide of the second interference arm 2; the nonreciprocal waveguide includes a magneto-optical waveguide and a lithium niobate waveguide, which are formed side by side in the width direction.
The lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator comprises a first 3dB coupler 3, a first interference arm 1, a second interference arm 2 and a second 3dB coupler 4, wherein each interference arm comprises a reciprocal waveguide 11, 21 and nonreciprocal waves 12 and 22, and the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 are isolated from each other. The device body is roughly in a spindle rod shape, the first 3dB coupler 3 and the second 3dB coupler 4 are respectively positioned at two ends of the spindle rod shape, and the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 are respectively positioned at two sides of the spindle rod shape. The device is integrally disposed on a lower cladding layer formed of silica or other material. Transverse electric field mode light transmitted in the forward direction enters the first 3dB coupler 3 from the input end and is divided into two beams of light with equal power and phase, the two beams of light respectively enter the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2, and finally the two beams of light are output through the output end of the second 3dB coupler 4. The reciprocal waveguide 11 and the reciprocal waveguide 21 generate reciprocal phase shift, and the nonreciprocal waveguide 12 and the nonreciprocal waveguide 22 generate nonreciprocal phase shift. The lengths of the two waveguides are designed to ensure that the phase shift of the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 meets the conditions of constructive light interference and destructive light interference of forward transmission when the phase shift is combined by the 3dB coupler, so that the isolation of reverse transmission light is realized.
It should be noted that, the length difference between the reciprocal waveguides in the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 may be implemented in a manner that the reciprocal waveguide 11 in the first interference arm 1 is curved outward, the reciprocal waveguide 21 in the second interference arm 2 is linear, the reciprocal waveguide is curved outward in a direction away from the second interference arm 2, and the reciprocal waveguide is curved outward without being curved inward, which is beneficial to reducing crosstalk between the two interference arms and simultaneously is convenient to load a reverse magnetic field to the two interference arms. Of course, the reciprocal waveguide 21 in the second interference arm 2 may be curved outwardly, and the reciprocal waveguide 11 in the first interference arm 1 may be linear.
Here, the non-reciprocal phase shift refers to the characteristic that light in two opposite directions in a certain object will exhibit different phase shifts, and similarly, the reciprocal phase shift refers to the characteristic that light in two opposite directions in a certain object will exhibit the same phase shift. According to the lithium niobate waveguide magneto-optical isolator, transmission light in different directions can generate irreversible nonreciprocal phase shift through the magneto-optical waveguide, reversible reciprocal phase shift can be generated through lithium niobate interference arms with different lengths, forward light is overlapped and enhanced through the reciprocal and nonreciprocal phase shift of the two lights by utilizing the interference principle of coherent light, and reverse light is counteracted and weakened.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the difference in length between the reciprocal waveguides in the first 1 and second 2 interference arms causes a pi/2 +2m pi phase shift in the two beams, where m is an integer.
The specific phase change process of forward and backward propagating light through the reciprocal and non-reciprocal waveguides is described in detail herein.
The forward transmitted light is equally divided into two beams of light 1, 2 with equal phase and intensity through the first 3dB coupler 1, and the two beams enter the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 respectively (assuming that the initial phases are both 0):
after passing through the unequal-length reciprocal waveguides of the interference arms, the phase of light in the first interference arm 1 becomes pi/2, and the phase of light in the second interference arm 2 is also 0;
after passing through the equal-length nonreciprocal waveguides of the interference arms, the phase of light in the first interference arm 1 becomes pi/4, and the phase of light in the second interference arm 2 becomes pi/4;
the phase difference of the forward light in the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 is 0, the condition of optical interference phase lengthening is achieved, and output is output from the second 3dB coupler 4 with high transmittance.
The backward transmitted light is equally divided into two beams of light 1, 2 with equal phase and intensity through the second 3dB coupler 4, and the two beams enter the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 respectively (assuming that the initial phases are both 0):
after the equal-length nonreciprocal waveguides of the interference arms, the phase of light in the first interference arm 1 is changed into pi/4, and the phase of light in the second interference arm 2 is changed into-pi/4;
after passing through the non-equal length reciprocal waveguides of the interference arms, the phase of the light in the first interference arm 1 becomes 3 pi/4, and the phase of the light in the second interference arm 2 becomes-pi/4;
the phase difference of the reverse light in the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 is pi, so that the condition of destructive light interference is achieved, and the output is output from the first 3dB coupler 3 with low transmittance.
Of course, it is not limited herein that the forward propagating light and the backward propagating light can only generate pi/2 phase shift after passing through the reciprocal waveguide, and pi/2 +2m pi phase shift can be applied, where m is an integer. The forward transmitted light generates different phase shifts through the reciprocal waveguide and generates opposite phase shifts through the non-reciprocal waveguide; the backward transmitted light generates opposite phase shift through the nonreciprocal waveguide, different phase shifts are generated through the reciprocal waveguide, and the forward transmitted light is overlapped and enhanced, the backward transmitted light is mutually offset and weakened through the design of the phase shift of the two sections of waveguides, so that the optical isolation effect is achieved.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the magneto-optical material of the magneto-optical waveguide is a magneto-optical active material with a large faraday coefficient, and comprises a doped rare-earth iron garnet material.
The Faraday coefficient represents the optical rotation performance of the magneto-optical material, and the larger the Faraday coefficient is, the optical rotation performance is represented, and the better the nonreciprocal property is. The doped rare earth iron garnet material has the characteristics of low dielectric loss, high density and high Faraday coefficient.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the magneto-optical material is cerium-doped yttrium iron garnet.
Lithium niobate material and Ce: YIG materials have very similar refractive indexes, the mode fields of light transmitted in the two waveguides are almost the same under the same size, the mode fields can be butted without loss, and the coupling efficiency is high.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the lower cladding of the optical isolator is made of silicon oxide material, the substrate is made of lithium niobate material, and the upper cladding is made of air, silicon oxide material or other semiconductor material with refractive index smaller than that of lithium niobate.
The device can be directly filled with air, and can also be covered with a layer of semiconductor material with the refractive index smaller than that of lithium niobate, so that the device is protected, leakage of partial power caused by direct scattering of light into the air is prevented, and the transmission efficiency is improved.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the first coupler 3 and the second coupler 4 are lithium niobate strip waveguides, wherein the first coupler 3 divides the forward transmitted light into two identical beams, and the second coupler 4 combines the two beams into one beam and outputs the beam through the output end.
The lithium niobate material has a high electro-optic coefficient, can realize low driving voltage and large-range tuning under a short waveguide length, and has good tuning performance. The first 3dB coupler 3 divides the forward transmitted light into two same beams of light, and the second 3dB coupler 4 combines the two beams of light into one beam of light and outputs the light through the output end of the light; the second 3dB coupler 4 divides the reversely transmitted light into two same beams, and the first 3dB coupler 3 combines the two beams into one beam and outputs the beam through the output end of the beam.
On the basis of the above-described embodiments, the first coupler 3 and the second coupler 4 include a 1 × 2 directional coupler, a Y-type waveguide coupler, and a 1 × 2 multimode interference coupler.
The coupler plays the roles of beam combination and beam splitting simultaneously, the 1 x 2 directional coupler has extremely low insertion loss, but has higher sensitivity to wavelength and polarization, and is commonly used for having higher requirements on low loss of devices, determining the polarization state of transmitted light and stabilizing the wavelength transmission; the Y-shaped waveguide coupler is simple in design and large in bandwidth, but depends on the manufacturing process precision, when the precision is insufficient, the sharp corner at the tail end of the conical area can cause mode mismatch with the output waveguide, so that the loss is large, and the Y-shaped waveguide coupler is usually used for the transverse mode situation that the preparation process precision is high and broadband transmission is required to be realized; the performance of the 1 multiplied by 2 multimode interference coupler is slightly influenced by structural parameters, the process tolerance is large, the preparation is easy, meanwhile, the polarization correlation is small, the polarization insensitive optical power splitter can be realized through proper design, and the loss is slightly high, so that the 1 multiplied by 2 multimode interference coupler is usually used for the situation of multi-polarization common transmission or polarization uncertainty.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the magnetic field on the nonreciprocal waveguide is a vertical magnetic field.
The magnetic field on the nonreciprocal waveguide 12 in the first interference arm 1 is a vertical upward magnetic field, and the magnetic field on the nonreciprocal waveguide 22 in the second interference arm 2 is a vertical downward magnetic field, that is, the directions of the magnetic fields of the two pieces of nonreciprocal waveguides are opposite, so that the light passing through the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 generate opposite phase changes. Of course. Here, the magnetic field on the nonreciprocal waveguide 22 in the second interference arm 2 may be a vertically upward magnetic field, and the magnetic field on the nonreciprocal waveguide 12 in the first interference arm 1 may be a vertically downward magnetic field.
Based on the above embodiment, the reciprocal waveguide has a height of 300-700 nm and a width of 400-1000 nm.
The reciprocal waveguide has the technical effect of low-loss single transverse mode fundamental mode transmission in the size range.
Based on the above embodiment, the height of the nonreciprocal waveguide is 300-700 nm, the width of the nonreciprocal waveguide is 400-1000 nm, and the width of the magneto-optical waveguide is 50-950 nm.
The magneto-optical waveguide and the lithium niobate waveguide in the nonreciprocal waveguide are arranged side by side, the height of the magneto-optical waveguide and the height of the lithium niobate waveguide are the same, the width of the magneto-optical waveguide and the width of the lithium niobate waveguide can be the same or different, and the magneto-optical waveguide and the lithium niobate waveguide have the advantages of low stacking waveguide coupling loss due to the similar widths.
The present invention is further illustrated by the following specific embodiments.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment, in which a lower cladding of a device is a silicon oxide material, a substrate is a lithium niobate material, and an upper cladding is air. The first 3dB coupler 3 and the second 3dB coupler 4 both adopt Y-shaped waveguide coupler structures. The non-reciprocal waveguides in the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 are loaded with magnetic fields in opposite directions perpendicular to the propagation direction and parallel to the waveguide plane, so that different non-reciprocal phase shifts can be generated.
The example operates with a center wavelength of 1550nm and a mode of fundamental transverse mode.
The cross-sectional structure and the distribution of the fundamental mode field of the transverse mode of the reciprocal waveguide are shown in FIG. 2, the height of the reciprocal waveguide is 600nm, and the width is 650 nm.
The distribution of the nonreciprocal waveguide interface structure and the transverse mode fundamental mode field is shown in fig. 3, the width of the lithium niobate waveguide is 320nm, the height is 600nm, the ratio of Ce: the YIG waveguide is arranged beside the lithium niobate waveguide in parallel with the lithium niobate waveguide, the width of the YIG waveguide is 330nm, the height of the YIG waveguide is 600nm, and the two material waveguides jointly form the nonreciprocal waveguide.
In fig. 2 and 3, the mode field distributions of the same light on the cross sections of the reciprocal waveguide and the non-reciprocal waveguide are very similar, and the mode overlap integral is more than 99%, so that the waveguide coupling efficiency is high, and the nearly lossless butt coupling between the waveguides is realized.
The length difference of the reciprocal waveguides in the first interference arm 1 and the second interference arm 2 is selected to be 2.9 mu m, and reciprocal phase shift of 6.5 pi is generated. Fig. 4 shows transmission characteristics of forward and reverse light transmission in this embodiment. It can be seen that > 30dB isolation can be achieved at a center wavelength of the device of 6.8nm around 1550 nm.
The above-mentioned embodiments are intended to illustrate the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention in further detail, and it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are only exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator which characterized in that, includes integrated into one piece's first interference arm (1), second interference arm (2), first coupler (3) and second coupler (4) form respectively the both ends of first interference arm (1), second interference arm (2), first interference arm (1), second interference arm (2) all include reciprocal waveguide, nonreciprocal waveguide along length direction at least, wherein:
the reciprocal waveguide of the first interference arm (1) and the reciprocal waveguide of the second interference arm (2) are different in length;
the nonreciprocal waveguide comprises a magneto-optical waveguide and a lithium niobate waveguide, and the magneto-optical waveguide and the lithium niobate waveguide are formed side by side in the width direction.
2. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to claim 1, wherein the difference in length of the reciprocal waveguides in the first interference arm (1) and the second interference arm (2) causes a pi/2 +2m pi phase shift in the two beams, where m is an integer.
3. The lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator of claim 1, wherein the magneto-optical material of the magneto-optical waveguide is a magneto-optically active material with a large faraday coefficient, comprising a doped rare earth iron garnet material.
4. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator of claim 3, wherein the magneto-optical material is cerium-doped yttrium iron garnet.
5. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to claim 1, wherein the lower cladding of the optical isolator is a silicon oxide material, the substrate is a lithium niobate material, and the upper cladding is air, a silicon oxide material or other semiconductor material with a refractive index smaller than that of lithium niobate.
6. The lithium niobate transverse mode optical isolator according to claim 1, wherein the first coupler (3) and the second coupler (4) are lithium niobate strip waveguides, wherein the first coupler (3) splits the forward transmitted transverse mode light into two identical beams, and the second coupler (4) combines the two beams into one beam and outputs the beam through an output end of the beam.
7. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to claim 6, wherein the first coupler (3) and the second coupler (4) comprise a 1 x 2 directional coupler, a Y-type waveguide coupler, a 1 x 2 multimode interference coupler.
8. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator of claim 1, wherein the magnetic field on the non-reciprocal waveguide is a vertical magnetic field.
9. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to claim 1, wherein the reciprocal waveguide has a height in the range of 300 to 700nm and a width in the range of 400 to 1000 nm.
10. The lithium niobate transverse-mode optical isolator according to claim 9, wherein the nonreciprocal waveguide has a height ranging from 300 to 700nm and a width ranging from 400 to 1000nm, and wherein the magneto-optical waveguide has a width ranging from 50 to 950 nm.
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