• DocumentCode
    1562508
  • Title

    Channel-by-channel tunable optical dispersion compensator consisting of arrayed-waveguide grating and liquid crystal on silicon

  • Author

    Seno, Kazunori ; Suzuki, Kenji ; Watanabe, K. ; Ooba, N. ; Mino, Shinji

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a tunable optical dispersion compensator consisting of an arrayed-waveguide grating and a liquid crystal on silicon. We obtained a tuning range of ± 800 ps/nm with a bandwidth of 16 GHz.
  • Keywords
    arrayed waveguide gratings; liquid crystal devices; optical communication equipment; optical dispersion; Si; arrayed-waveguide grating; bandwidth 16 GHz; liquid crystal on silicon; tunable optical dispersion compensator; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Focusing; Lenses; Liquid crystal on silicon; Mirrors; Optical arrays; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Phased arrays; Spectroscopy;
  • 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.2008.4528757
  • Filename
    4528757