Abstract
A new design method is proposed to optimize a heater shape in Digital Optical Switch (DOS) in order to improve the
crosstalk performance. The heater has been optimized so that the thermal field distribution induce a constant effective
refractive index difference (ΔNeff ) along the propagation direction. Compare to the linear heater, the result shows that the
DOS using parabolic heater could improve the crosstalk performance. At temperature change of 30 °C, the crosstalk
achieved by linear heater is only -10.3 dB, while the crosstalk achieved by the parabolic heater is -22.5 dB..
Keywords
Digital optical switch, Heater, crosstalk, Temperature distribution.
Citation
ABU SAHMAH M. SUPA’AT, SEVIA M. IDRUS, A. B. MOHAMMAD, IAN YULIANTI, ABDULAZIZ M. AL-HETAR, Parabolic heater for low crosstalk digital optical switch, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 5, May 2009, pp.418-423 (2009).
Submitted at: May 6, 2009
Accepted at: May 25, 2009