Ultra-compact and fabrication-tolerant multimode photonic jumpers based on dual Bezier curves

Compact routing of multimode bus waveguides is of great significance for on-chip mode -division multiplexing (MDM) systems to realize high integration density and flexible layout. In this Letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel, to the best of our knowledge, multimode photonic jumper (MPJ) on a standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. It enables an ultra-compact connection between two parallel multimode waveguides (MWGs) with an arbitrary displacement. As a proof of concept, we describe two MPJs with displacements of 5.9 mu m and 0.6 mu m, each supporting three modes and featuring a longitudinal distance of around 14 mu m. For both MPJs, the experimental results show insertion losses (ILs) below 0.086 dB and inter -modal cross talk (CT) below - 17.6 dB over the wide wavelength range of 1525-1600 nm for all three modes. (c) 2024 Optica Publishing Group