TY - JOUR
T1 - A flattop PLC polymer waveguide interleaver based on folded two-stage-cascaded Y-junction Mach–Zehnder interferometers
AU - Chan, Wai Ying
AU - Chen, Kai Xin
AU - Chan, Hau Ping
AU - Pal, Bishnu P.
AU - Varshney, R.K.
PY - 2009/3/1
Y1 - 2009/3/1
N2 - We demonstrate realization of a flattop Y-Junction Planar Optical Waveguide Interleaver (YJPOWI) with a channel spacing of 100 GHz through a novel scheme of folded cascaded two-stage unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) fabricated on a polymer Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) platform. The characteristic 0.5 dB passbands of the interleaver centered at ITU wavelength grids at its two output ports were 50 and 45 GHz, respectively. The operating bandwidth of the device spanned the entire C band of a fiber amplifier and it is compact in size (1.3 × 1.4 cm2). In addition, the device is easy to fabricate and do not require any individual heater to trim its performance.
AB - We demonstrate realization of a flattop Y-Junction Planar Optical Waveguide Interleaver (YJPOWI) with a channel spacing of 100 GHz through a novel scheme of folded cascaded two-stage unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) fabricated on a polymer Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) platform. The characteristic 0.5 dB passbands of the interleaver centered at ITU wavelength grids at its two output ports were 50 and 45 GHz, respectively. The operating bandwidth of the device spanned the entire C band of a fiber amplifier and it is compact in size (1.3 × 1.4 cm2). In addition, the device is easy to fabricate and do not require any individual heater to trim its performance.
KW - Folded structures
KW - Integrated optics devices
KW - Polymer planar waveguides
KW - Wavelength filtering devices
KW - Y-junction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/58249131722
U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.11.068
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.11.068
M3 - Article
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 282
SP - 883
EP - 886
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 5
ER -