Title :
Design and fabrication of an ultra-compact silicon on insulator demultiplexer based on arrayed waveguide gratings
Author :
Liu, Xiaoping ; Hsieh, I-Wei ; Chen, Xiaogang ; Takekoshi, Mitsuhide ; Dadap, Jerry I. ; Panoiu, Nicolae C. ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr. ; Green, William M. ; Xia, Fengnian ; Vlasov, Yurii A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY
Abstract :
We present the design and fabrication of a SOI ultra-compact wavelength-demultiplexer based on arrayed-waveguide-gratings. The size of device is <0.1 mm2 and the simulation shows that crosstalk is >30 dB between channels and insertion loss is ~1 dB.
Keywords :
arrayed waveguide gratings; demultiplexing equipment; integrated optics; optical design techniques; silicon-on-insulator; SOI ultra-compact wavelength-demultiplexer; arrayed waveguide gratings; ultra-compact silicon on insulator demultiplexer; Arrayed waveguide gratings; CMOS technology; Couplers; Frequency response; Insertion loss; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator technology; Testing; (060.4230) Multiplexing; (060.4510) Optical communications; (130.3120) Integrated optics devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
