MIT Amorphous Materials 13: Optical Fibers and Waveguides

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials 13: Optical Fibers and Waveguides Juejun (JJ) Hu hujuejun@mit.edu

The masters of light “If we were to unravel all of the glass fibers that wind around the globe, we would get a single thread over one billion kilometers long – which is enough to encircle the globe more than 25,000 times – and is increasing by thousands of kilometers every hour.” 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics Press Release

Light confinement via total internal reflection nlow Condition for TIR: Light q nhigh Core nlow Cladding Snell is right by Ulrich Lohmann PMMA Air

Waveguide cross-section geometries 2-d optical confinement 1-d optical confinement cladding core nlow nlow nlow core nhigh nhigh nhigh cladding nlow cladding nlow Slab waveguide Channel/photonic wire waveguide Rib/ridge waveguide cladding core Step-index fiber Graded-index (GRIN) fiber

Optical fiber materials Glasses: silica and other oxides, chalcogenides, halides, polymers Metals, crystalline oxides and semiconductors, etc. Dopants in silica glass Increase index: GeO2, P2O5, TiO2 Decrease index: B2O3 Luminescent centers: rare earth (e.g. Er) Refractive index nD of SiO2-GeO2 glass Appl. Opt. 24, 4486 (2004)

Standard single-mode silica optical fiber structure Core/cladding: low loss light propagation Buffer/jacket: protection against mechanical damage and the environment (UV radiation, humidity, etc.) Cladding Core

Viscosity window for fiber drawing: Fiber drawing process Fiber preforms Viscosity window for fiber drawing: 104 to 106 Pa·s https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401266/drawing-optical-fibers/ Drawing tower Fiber spool

Fiber drawing: diameter control Drawing tension: Fiber diameter is determined by the drawing speed Fiber diameter is feedback loop controlled in real time during drawing Candy fiber drawing Preform A Neck-down region IEEE Photon. J. 2, 620 (2010) J. Appl. Phys. 49, 4417 (1978) F

Standard silica fiber preform fabrication Modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) SiCl4 + O2 → SiO2 (soot) + Cl2 GeCl4 + O2 → GeO2 + Cl2 Layer composition and thickness controlled in each torch sweep Water-free reaction: minimal -OH contamination High temperature reaction zone Soot Silicon tetrachloride has a boiling point convenient for purification by repeated fractional distillation Reactant gases Rotating silica tube Traversing torch MCVD lathe, University of Southampton

Optical fiber manufacturing and testing Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)

Glass properties impact fiber processing Glass forming ability Processing window Liquid fragility Fragility parameter Temperature sensitivity

Multi-material, microstructured optical fibers Nat. Mater. 6, 336, (2007) Optical mode shaping Dispersion engineering Broadband transmission Multi-functional sensing Microstructured optical fibers: photonic bandgaps and various sizes of the rings give rise to the different colors A. Argyros, the University of Sydney

Multi-material, microstructured optical fibers Rod-in-tube Extrusion Stack-and-draw Int. J. Appl. Glass Sci. 3, 349 (2012) Adv. Mater. 18, 845 (2006)

Planar integration: the paradigm shift The NEW way: integrated circuits The OLD way: discrete devices Smaller, faster cheaper & greener

Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) Optical diodes Isolator Source Modulator Detector Waveguide Semiconductor lasers E-to-O signal encoders Optical “wires”: signal routing O-to-E conversion Lasers: hybrid laser, Ge laser Isolators: magneto-optical isolator Modulators: III-V/Si ring and MZI Waveguides: SOI, nitride, glass, polymer Detectors: III-V and Ge detectors

All optical components integrated on a glass substrate Waveguide Waveguide Laser cavity Optical switch Photodetector All optical components integrated on a glass substrate

State-of-the-art integrated photonics Light Optical fiber interface Core Cladding Substrate Photonic chip IMEC photonic chip & Tyndall fiber array packaging Integrated planar waveguide Substrate platforms: Si, III-V semiconductors, glass, LiNbO3, polymer Core material: c-Si, III-V, a-Si, SiO2, SiN, ion exchange glass, polymer

Planar waveguide fabrication Substrate Cladding layer Core layer Amorphous waveguide material: ease of deposition, low optical loss Planar waveguide platform: massively parallel low-cost fabrication, geometry/material diversity, interfacing with other on-chip components

Optical loss in fibers and waveguides Material attenuation Surface roughness scattering Optical fiber Frozen surface capillary waves due to energy equipartition Usually small in optical fibers Planar waveguide Surface roughness resulting from imperfect patterning A major loss mechanism s : RMS roughness J. Lightwave Technol. 23, 2719 (2005)

Optical communication system 1 = invasion 0 = peace

Optical communication system 1 Transmitter driver circuit Optical transmitter (Tx) / transceiver Electronic digital signal 1 Optical fiber / waveguide Optical digital signal 1 Receiver circuit Optical receiver (Rx) / transceiver Electronic digital signal Fiber ribbon Opt. Express 19, B777 (2011)

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) Single-core fiber communication speed record 2011 (NEC): 370 channels × 273 Gbps data rate = 101 Tbps Optical channel Single optical fiber

See what the “FiOS boy” says about WDM!

Inside Google’s data center

http://natick.research.microsoft.com

Electrical to optical interconnect Enterprise Distance: 0.1-10km Rack-Rack Distance: 1-100m Board-Board Distance: 50-100cm Chip-Chip Distance: 1-50cm Integrated photonics? 10G >= 40G OPTICAL 3.125G 10G 40G Optical Tech 3.125G 5-6G 10G 20G Copper Tech ELECTRICAL Transition Zone 3.125G 5-6G 10G 15-20G 2004 2010+

Active optical cable (AOC)

Summary Device fabrication Fiber drawing Preform fabrication: MCVD process Drawing parameter control: fiber diameter & draw tension Multi-material fiber and microstructured fiber processing Planar waveguide fabrication Optical loss in fibers and waveguides Material attenuation Surface roughness scattering Optical communications Digital communication systems & WDM