• DocumentCode
    1595611
  • Title

    Hybrid integration of semiconductor optical amplifier and silica-based planar lightwave circuit for low polarization dependent gain

  • Author

    Akutsu, Takeshi ; Funabashi, Masaki ; Hasegawa, Hideaki ; Yokouchi, Noriyuki ; Nara, Kazutaka

  • Author_Institution
    Fitel Photonics Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co., Ltd., Ichihara, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated a semiconductor optical amplifier hybrid-integrated with a silica-based planar lightwave circuits. With deploying polarization diversity circuit, polarization dependent gain was reduced from 22.9 dB to 1.8 dB in C-band.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; optical planar waveguides; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon compounds; C-band; SiO2; gain 22.9 dB to 1.8 dB; hybrid integration; low polarization dependent gain; polarization diversity circuit; semiconductor optical amplifier; silica-based planar lightwave circuit; Couplings; Fabrication; Gain; Optical attenuators; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875778