• DocumentCode
    1427408
  • Title

    Penalty-free polarisation compensation of SiO2/Si arrayed waveguide grating wavelength multiplexers using stress release grooves

  • Author

    Wildermuth, E. ; Nadler, Ch ; Lanker, M. ; Hunziker, W. ; Melchior, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Quantum Electron., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    8/20/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1661
  • Lastpage
    1663
  • Abstract
    A new method for the compensation of polarisation sensitivity of arrayed waveguide grating wavelength multiplexers based on SiO2 is presented. By means of stress release grooves, fabrication induced waveguide birefringence is compensated without performance degradation. Reductions of TE/TM passband shifts from 0.66 nm to <0.05 nm are demonstrated
  • Keywords
    compensation; diffraction gratings; light polarisation; mechanical birefringence; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical waveguide components; silicon; silicon compounds; wavelength division multiplexing; SiO2-Si; SiO2/Si arrayed waveguide grating wavelength multiplexer; TE/TM passband shift; all-optical WDM; birefringence; polarisation compensation; stress release groove;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19981186
  • Filename
    715278
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1427408