Abstract

We present a 2 × 2 polarization-insensitive switch on a 220-nm silicon-on-insulator platform, employing a balanced Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) structure. This design incorporates polarization-insensitive adiabatic couplers, polarization rotators based on mode hybridization and evolution, and thermo-optic mode-insensitive phase shifters with wide waveguides. The switch exhibits broadband polarization-insensitive characteristics, with extinction ratios larger than 15 dB, insertion losses less than 2.3 dB, and polarization-dependent losses less than 1 dB for wavelengths ranging from 1500 nm to 1600 nm. The power consumption required for simultaneously switching the fundamental transverse electric (TE₀) and transverse magnetic (TM₀) polarized modes is 29.1 mW. These results highlight the potential of the switch as a building block for on-chip polarization-division-multiplexed optical interconnects.

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