Title :
Athermal AWGs in SOI by overlaying a polymer cladding on narrowed arrayed waveguides
Author :
Wang, Linghua ; Bogaerts, Wim ; Dumon, Pieter ; Selvaraja, Shankar Kumar ; Morthier, Geert ; Teng, Jie ; Han, Xiuyou ; Jian, Xigao ; Zhao, Mingshan ; Baets, Roel
Author_Institution :
INTEC-Dept., Ghent Univ. - IMEC, Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
Athermal AWGs in SOI are experimentally demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. By using narrowed arrayed waveguides and overlaying of polymer, we obtain a wavelength temperature dependence of 7.1pm/°C and good optical properties.
Keywords :
arrayed waveguide gratings; optical fibre cladding; silicon-on-insulator; SOI; athermal arrayed waveguide gratings; polymer cladding; polymer overlaying; silicon-on-insulator; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Photonics; Polymers; Silicon; Temperature dependence; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
