• DocumentCode
    1454715
  • Title

    Ultra-small Si-nanowire-based 400 GHz-spacing 15 X 15 arrayed-waveguide grating router with microbends

  • Author

    Fu, Xiao ; Dai, Dao-Qing

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Opt. & Electromagn. Res., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    266
  • Lastpage
    268
  • Abstract
    An ultra-small arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) router with microbends based on silicon-on-insulator nanowires is demonstrated experimentally. The presented AWG router has 15 input/output channels and the channel spacing is 400 GHz. The device size is only 163 × 147 μm. The thermal-tunability of the presented ultra-small AWG router is also characterised.
  • Keywords
    arrayed waveguide gratings; nanowires; optical waveguide components; silicon-on-insulator; submillimetre wave devices; telecommunication network routing; waveguide discontinuities; wireless channels; AWG router; channel spacing; frequency 400 GHz; microbend; silicon-on-insulator nanowire; thermal-tunability; ultra-small Si-nanowire-based arrayed-waveguide grating router;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2010.3068
  • Filename
    5716804