Simulation of Polymer Multimode Interference Thermo-Optic Switch

Abstract

Thermo-optic switch is one of the most matures optical switching technologies that play a vital role in developing an optical network. This paper demonstrates the simulation of Multimode Interference (MMI) Thermo-Optic (TO) Switch based on polymer material using Beam Propagation Method (BPM). By using BeamProp software from RSoft®, the simulation result for crosstalk shows small percentage of deviation of 1% compared to previous research work.