Low-loss, flat-passband and athermal arrayed-waveguide grating multi/demultiplexer

Opt Express. 2007 Dec 24;15(26):18351-6. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.018351.

Abstract

We successfully demonstrated a low-loss, flat-passband, and athermal arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) multi/demultiplexer with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as an input router. Resin-filled trenches were formed in the longer arm of the MZI as well as the slab in the AWG to compensate for the temperature dependence. A 32-channel athermal multi/demultiplexer was fabricated using silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology. A small temperature-dependent wavelength shift of 0.02 nm was obtained over the temperature range of -5 to 65 degrees C with low-loss (3.3-3.7 dB) and flat-passband spectra.

MeSH terms

  • Filtration / instrumentation*
  • Interferometry / instrumentation*
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Systems Integration
  • Telecommunications / instrumentation*
  • Temperature