100-Gb/s Wavelength Division Demultiplexing Using a Photonic Crystal Four-Channel Drop Filter

Author

Thanh Nam Nguyen ; Gay, M. ; Lengle, Kevin ; Bramerie, L. ; Thual, M. ; Simon, J.C. ; Malaguti, S. ; Bellanca, G. ; Trillo, S. ; Combrie, S. ; Lehoucq, G. ; De Rossi, A.

Author_Institution

Foton Lab., Univ. Eur. de Bretagne, Lannion, France

Volume

25

Issue

9

fYear

2013

fDate

41395

Firstpage

813

Lastpage

816

Abstract

We report on the first demonstration of the wavelength demultiplexing of a 100-Gb/s nonreturn to zero signal to four channels at 25 Gb/s, based on resonant structures implemented in GaInP photonic crystals. The device is composed of four filters based on H0 cavities with one common input bus and four drop outputs showing a very small footprint. The measured device characteristics show good performances in terms of transmission and crosstalk with insertion losses of 11 dB on the best port. System measurements have validated its operation with <; 1-dB power penalty at a bit error rate of 10^-9.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; demultiplexing; error statistics; gallium compounds; indium compounds; optical communication; optical crosstalk; optical filters; photonic crystals; wavelength division multiplexing; GaInP; GaInP photonic crystals; H0 cavities; bit error rate; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; crosstalk; four-channel drop filter; resonant structures; wavelength division demultiplexing; Bit error rate; Cavity resonators; Channel spacing; Optical fiber filters; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical communication; photonic crystal waveguides; wavelength filtering device;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2013.2252888

Filename

6482169