Eight-wavelength add-drop filter with true reconfigurability

Author

Doerr, C.R. ; Stulz, L.W. ; Levy, D.S. ; Gomez, L. ; Cappuzzo, M. ; Bailey, J. ; Long, R. ; Wong-Foy, A. ; Laskowski, E. ; Chen, E. ; Patel, S. ; Murphy, T.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

140

Abstract

The authors demonstrate an integrated add-drop filter with true reconfigurability. It can drop any combination of eight wavelengths to any of eight drop ports, with less than 7 dB loss. Its features are suitable for mass production: use of standard silica waveguide technology, double-rejection switching and filtering for all paths, compactness, and power-efficient thermooptic switching.

Keywords

channel spacing; integrated optics; optical fibre filters; optical switches; telecommunication network routing; thermo-optical devices; 7 dB; channel-dropping filter; compactness; double-rejection switching; eight drop ports; eight-wavelength add-drop filter; integrated add-drop filter; mass production; optical add-drop; power-efficient thermooptic switching; standard silica waveguide technology; true reconfigurability; Crosstalk; Filtering; Mass production; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Silicon compounds; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.802382

Filename

1159088