Title : 
Ultra small 100 ghz 40 ch athermal AWG module using 2.5%-Δ silica-based waveguides
         
        
            Author : 
Itoh, Mikitaka ; Kamei, Shin ; Ishii, Motohaya ; Shibata, Tomohiro ; Tamura, Munehisa ; Inoue, Yasuyuki
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We demonstrated an ultra small 100 GHz 40 ch athermal AWG module based on 2.5%-Delta waveguides. The module is 30 times 10 times 5 mm with an insertion loss of 2.0-2.9 dB.
         
        
            Keywords : 
arrayed waveguide gratings; wavelength division multiplexing; arrayed waveguide gratings; athermal AWG module; dense wavelength division multiplexing; silica-based waveguides; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Assembly; Circuits; Diffraction; Laboratories; Optical losses; Photonics; Slabs; Temperature; Wavelength division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Brussels
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2227-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2228-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729153