A tunable 3D hollow waveguide bragg reflector with giant birefringence and tunable differential group delay

Author

Kumar, Mukesh ; Koyama, Fumio

Author_Institution

Microsyst. Res. Center, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A tapered-3D-hollow-waveguide Bragg-reflector has been proposed exhibiting a giant-birefringence of 0.01 and an 8.5-psec tuning in differential-group-delay for 3-mm-long compact devices, which can be used for adjustable compensation of polarization-mode-dispersion in optical-fiber-links.

Keywords

birefringence; distributed Bragg reflectors; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical tuning; optical waveguide components; giant birefringence; optical-fiber-links; polarization-mode-dispersion compensation; size 3 mm; tapered waveguide; time 0.01 ps; time 8.5 ps; tunable 3D hollow waveguide Bragg reflector; tunable differential group delay; Birefringence; Hollow waveguides; Mirrors; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical tuning; Optical waveguides; Photonic integrated circuits; Propagation delay; Slabs; Tunable circuits and devices; (230.7390) Waveguides, planar; (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032864