High-Resolution, Loop-Back AWG for Compact, High-Fidelity Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation

Author

Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Geisler, D.J. ; Scott, Ryan P. ; Chunxin Yang ; Soares, Francisco M. ; Karalar, Aytug ; Jie Yang ; Okamoto, K. ; Heritage, Jonathan P ; Ben Yoo, S.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

24-28 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate a high-performance waveform shaper based on a 64-channel, 10-GHz silica arrayed-waveguide grating with loop-back channels and integrated amplitude and phase modulators. The design allows wavelength-matched demultiplexing and multiplexing in the compact waveform shaper.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; phase modulation; frequency 10 GHz; high-fidelity optical arbitrary waveform generation; integrated amplitude modulators; loop-back AWG; loop-back channels; phase modulators; silica arrayed-waveguide grating; waveform shaper; wavelength-matched demultiplexing; wavelength-matched multiplexing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; Optical arrays; Optical modulation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Phased arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528580

Filename

4528580