Tunable chromatic dispersion compensator utilizing silica waveguide ring resonator having Mach-Zehnder interferometric variable coupler eliminating crossing point of waveguides

Author

Takahashi, Hidenori ; Nishimura, Kohsuke ; Usami, Masashi

Author_Institution

KDDI R&D Labs. Inc., Saitama, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

665

Abstract

A new configuration for an all-pass filter-based tunable chromatic dispersion compensator utilizing silica waveguide ring resonators having a Mach-Zehnder interferometer without a crossing point was proposed and fabricated. FSR of 24 GHz and tuning range of +/-1280 ps/nm was confirmed.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; all-pass filters; compensation; optical couplers; optical fibre dispersion; optical losses; optical phase shifters; optical resonators; optical tuning; optical waveguide filters; thermo-optical devices; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Mach-Zehnder interferometric variable coupler; SiO₂-GeO₂; all-pass filter-based tunable chromatic dispersion compensator; coupling loss; excess loss spectra; silica waveguide ring resonators; thermooptical phase shifters; waveguide crossing point elimination; Chromatic dispersion; Delay; Optical device fabrication; Optical ring resonators; Passband; Phase shifters; Plasma waves; Resonator filters; Shape; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159481

Filename

1159481