Title :
Ultra-Wide-Band Adiabatic Coupler As a Building Block for 2??32 PLC Splitter
Author :
Narevich, R. ; Blume, R.D. ; Ho, Chih-Chun ; Kheraj, N. ; Le, D.V. ; Long, William ; McGreer, K.A. ; Ticknor, A.J.
Author_Institution :
NeoPhotonics Corp., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate adiabatic wavelength insensitive 2×2 PLC coupler with less than 0.6 dB variation over 1260- 1630 nm range and better than 0.25 dB PDL. We use it to build process tolerant 2×32 splitter having excellent optical performance.
Keywords :
optical beam splitters; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; optical fibre networks; optical planar waveguides; PLC coupler; PLC splitter; ultrawide-band adiabatic coupler; wavelength 1260 nm to 1630 nm; Integrated optics; Optical devices; Optical interferometry; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Page description languages; Passive optical networks; Programmable control; Ultra wideband technology;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528449
