Wavelength monitoring with low-contrast multimode interference waveguide

Author

Sookdhis, Chrisada ; Mei, Ting ; Djie, Hery Susanto

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

17

Issue

4

fYear

2005

fDate

4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

822

Lastpage

824

Abstract

We demonstrate a wavelength monitor based on interference effect in planar quantum-well waveguide fabricated using argon plasma quantum-well intermixing. The passive device exhibits a characteristic curve, which is used to determine the wavelength of an arbitrary input light near the 1550-nm window. It has an exponential-like wavelength response in the wavelength range 1520-1620 nm and resolution of 0.2 nm.

Keywords

laser variables measurement; light interference; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; optical planar waveguides; quantum well devices; 1520 to 1620 nm; argon plasma quantum-well intermixing; multimode interference waveguide; planar quantum-well waveguide; wavelength monitoring; Distributed feedback devices; Interference; Laser feedback; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Monitoring; Optical waveguides; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor waveguides; Waveguide lasers; Integrated optics; multimode waveguides; quantum wells; wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.844012

Filename

1411888