Abstract

Subwavelength engineering and utilizing phase-change materials with large contrast in their optical properties have become powerful design tools for integrated silicon photonics. Reversible phase-transition of phase-change materials such as ${\rm{G}}{{\rm{e}}_2}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{b}}_2}{\rm{T}}{{\rm{e}}_5}$ (GST) provide a new degree of freedom and open up the possibility of adding new functionalities to the designed devices. We present an optical filter based on a silicon subwavelength grating (SWG) waveguide evanescently coupled to phase-change material loading segments arranged periodically around the SWG core. The effect of the GST loading segments’ geometry and their distance from the SWG core on the filter’s central wavelength and bandwidth are studied with three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulations. The employment of GST in the structure adds a switching functionality with an extinction ratio of 28.8 dB. We also examine the possibility of using the proposed structure as a reconfigurable filter by controlling the partial crystallization of the GST offering a blueshift of more than 4 nm.

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