Silicon photonic wavelength tunable laser diode with low loss direct heating phase shifter

Abstract

We proposed and demonstrated a compact and low propagation loss thermo-optical phase shifter using a multi-mode interference. The calculated insertion loss of designed MMI phase shifter was approximately 0.05 dB. The fabricated phase shifter shows high speed and low power consumption. The wavelength tunable laser diode with two ring resonators loaded the MMI phase shifters was fabricated. The wavelength tuning operation with low power consumption was successfully demonstrated.