Silicon nitride three-mode division multiplexing and wavelength-division multiplexing using asymmetrical directional couplers and microring resonators.

We demonstrate silicon nitride mode-division multiplexing (MDM) and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) using asymmetrical directional couplers and microring resonators. Our experiments reveal three-mode multiplexing and demultiplexing. We demonstrate 30Gb/s open eye diagrams with an extinction ratio of ~9 dB for each of the three modes. We observe the worst-case modal crosstalk of ~-10 dB. Our analysis of the measured transmission spectra suggests three contributions to the observed crosstalks, with the dominant cause being a compromised input-coupling at the directional couplers in the multiplexer.

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