Title :
Athermal silica-based arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer
Author :
Inoue, Yasuyuki ; Kaneko, Akimasa ; Hanaw, F. ; Takahashi, Hiroshi ; Hattori, Kuninori ; Sumida, Shin
Author_Institution :
NTT Opto-Electron. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
Temperature dependent channel wavelength shift in a silica-based arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexer is successfully suppressed from 0.95 nm to 0.05 nm in the 0-85°C temperature range, which means it can be used in practical WDM systems without temperature control
Keywords :
silicon compounds; 0 to 85 C; athermal silica-based arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexer; practical WDM systems; temperature control; temperature dependent channel wavelength shift; temperature range;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971605
