Title :
Highly stable optical add/drop multiplexer using polarization beam splitters and fiber Bragg gratings
Author :
Kim, Se Yoon ; Lee, Sang Bae ; Chung, Joon ; Kim, Sang Yong ; Park, Il Jong ; Jeong, Jichai ; Choi, Sang Sam
Author_Institution :
Div. of Electron. & Inf. Technol., Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
We demonstrate a novel wavelength-division add/drop multiplexer employing fiber Bragg gratings and polarization beam splitters. The multiplexer is easy to fabricate without any special technique such as UV trimming, and yet shows very stable performance with less than 0.3-dB crosstalk power penalty in a 0.8-nm-spaced, 2.5-Gb/s-per-channel wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transmission system.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibres; stability; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; Gb/s-per-channel WDM transmission system; Gb/s-per-channel wavelength-division multiplexing transmission system; crosstalk power penalty; fiber Bragg gratings; highly stable optical add/drop multiplexer; polarization beam splitters; very stable performance; wavelength-division add/drop multiplexer; Add-drop multiplexers; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical beam splitting; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
