[TuD3] LiDAR and SDM Devices

[TuD3-2] Mode Selective Switch Using Volume Holograms and a Spatial Light Modulator

〇Taijun Shiba¹, Atsushi Okamoto¹, Tomohiro Maeda¹, Taketoshi Takahata^1,2, Satoshi Shinada³, Naoya Wada³ (¹Hokkaido Univ., Japan, ²OPTOQUEST Co., Ltd., Japan, ³National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Keywords:Optical channel selecting/routing devices , SDM technologies for photonic switching and networking

We propose a mode selective switch (MSS) using volume holograms and a spatial light modulator to constitute the core of an MDM network. We clarify the characteristics of the MSS for two different spatial modes.