Generation of an intensity-balanced optical pulse couple based on silica planar lightwave circuit
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1.State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083,China;2.Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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National Key R &D Program of China 2018YFA0306403;National Nature Science Foundation of China 61805232 61435013;K.C. Wong Education FoundationSupported by National Key R &D Program of China (2018YFA0306403), National Nature Science Foundation of China (61805232,61435013), and K.C. Wong Education Foundation.

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    To make the pulse couple balanced, an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) with a tunable directional coupler (DC) of a silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology was proposed. The simulation results show that the DC tuning effect is better when the refractive index of both coupling arms changes independently. When the distance between the electrode and the waveguide core in the coupling zone is 0, the temperature difference between the coupling arms reaches the maximum. The test results of AMZI show that the insertion loss is 2.05 dB and the delay time is 151.4 ps. The power ratio of the pulse couple is highly close to one. Our device presents a practical solution to improve the performance of future integrated QKD device.

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REN Mei-Zhen, LI Xiao, ZHANG Jia-Shun, WANG Liang-Liang, WANG Yue, YIN Xiao-Jie, WU Yuan-Da, AN Jun-Ming. Generation of an intensity-balanced optical pulse couple based on silica planar lightwave circuit[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2019,38(6):701~705

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  • Received:March 19,2019
  • Revised:November 13,2019
  • Adopted:May 27,2019
  • Online: December 17,2019
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