Photonic crystal-based compact hybrid WDM/MDM (De)multiplexer for SOI platforms.

A compact hybrid wavelength- (WDM) and mode-division (de)multiplexer (MDM) is proposed, and its performance is evaluated. The design of the device is based on 2D photonic crystals with a square lattice and Si rods. The device can multiplex two eigenmodes, TM and TM, and two wavelengths, 1550 and 1300 nm.

Modeling, simulation, and fabrication of bi-directional mode-division multiplexing for silicon-on-insulator platform.

A strip waveguide-based bi-directional mode-division multiplexer is proposed. A mathematical model has been proposed to analyze the performance, and the results are simulated. The design concept of this device to (de)multiplex three modes simultaneously has been studied previously for slab waveguides, both mathematically using the perturbative mode-coupled theory and by simulation using 2D FDTD Solutions (FDTD, finite difference time domain).

Numerical characterization of InP-based quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier.

This paper is devoted to the development of a steady-state behavior of a quantum dot-semiconductor optical amplifier (QD-SOA). The investigated performance characteristics cover a wide range that includes material gain coefficient, spatial distribution of the occupation probabilities, fiber to fiber gain, gain spectrum as a function of the bias current, relaxation time, and capture time. A set of traveling-wave equations is used to model the signal and spontaneous photons along the device active region.