Title :
Compact and low-loss ZrO2-SiO2 PLC-based 8×8 multicast switch for CDC-ROADM application
Author :
Masanori Takahashi;Shintaro Yamasaki;Yasuyoshi Uchida;Junichi Hasegawa
Author_Institution :
Telecommunications &
Abstract :
We report a compact 30×9mm2 8×8 multicast switch based on a ZrO2-SiO2 PLC. Low insertion loss of 12.8dB including coupling loss to SMF, low crosstalk less than -50dB, and low polarization dependent loss of 0.5dB are achieved.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Optical losses","Optical fibers","Propagation losses","Optical device fabrication"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341647