Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) phased-array wavelength multi/demultiplexer with extremely low-polarization sensitivity

Author

Trinh, P.D. ; Yegnanarayanan, S. ; Coppinger, F. ; Jalali, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

940

Lastpage

942

Abstract

We demonstrate the first phased-array wavelength multiplexer fabricated in the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide technology. The four-channel wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) has a channel spacing of 1.9 nm centered at 1550-nm wavelength and a 3-dB channel bandwidth of 0.72 nm. The crosstalk to neighboring channels is less than -22 dB and the on-chip insertion loss is below 6 dB for all channels. The TE-TM shift is less than 0.04 nm which is the smallest attained without compensation techniques in any integrated optic technology.

Keywords

compensation; diffraction gratings; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical losses; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength division multiplexing; 1550 nm; 6 dB; SOI waveguide technology; TE-TM shift; WDM; channel bandwidth; channel spacing; extremely low-polarization sensitivity; four-channel wavelength division multiplexer; integrated optic technology; neighboring channels; on-chip insertion loss; silicon-on-insulator phased-array wavelength multi/demultiplexer; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Channel spacing; Integrated circuit technology; Optical fiber communication; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon on insulator technology; Slabs; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.593358

Filename

593358