DocumentCode
1955467
Title
Polarization orthogonality preservation in DWDM cascaded arrayed-waveguide grating networks
Author
Tsalamanis, I. ; Rochat, Etienne ; Walker, Stuart D. ; Parker, Michael C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Volume
1
fYear
2004
fDate
23-27 Feb. 2004
Firstpage
268
Abstract
We demonstrate polarization multiplexing in cascaded arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) networks. In particular, AWG channel mapping and temperature fluctuations for different states of polarization were investigated and orthogonality degradation found to be small and additive.
Keywords
arrayed waveguide gratings; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; AWG channel mapping; DWDM; arrayed-waveguide grating networks; cascaded AWG networks; orthogonality degradation; polarization multiplexing; polarization orthogonality; polarization states; temperature fluctuations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-772-5
Type
conf
Filename
1359254
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