Polymer PLC platform with a 4-to-1 multiplexer for a low-cost 10 GbE WWDM transmitter

Author

Takahashi, Masaharu ; Ido, T.

Author_Institution

Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji, Japan

fYear

2002

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

16

Abstract

To reduce the fabrication cost of the 10 GbE wideWDM (WWDM) transmitter module, a polymer PLC platform with a 4-to-1 multiplexer, a V-groove for fiber alignment and electrodes for LD bonding was developed. The excess insertion loss of the fabricated platform is less than 1 dB. The difference of the insertion loss among the channels and the wavelength dependence of the insertion loss are both less than 0.3 dB. These results show that this polymer PLC platform can provide a low-cost and high-performance 10 GbE WWDM.

Keywords

integrated optoelectronics; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical polymers; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 0.3 dB; 1 dB; 4-to-1 multiplexer; LD bonding; V-groove; channels; electrodes; fiber alignment; insertion loss; polymer PLC platform; transmitter module; wavelength dependence; wide wavelength WDM transmitter; Bit rate; Bonding; Electrodes; Multiplexing; Optical fiber LAN; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Polyimides; Polymers; Programmable control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036171

Filename

1036171