Athermal all-polymer arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer

Author

Yao, H.H. ; Zawadzki, Crispin ; Keil, Norbert

Author_Institution

Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

14

Abstract

All-polymer AWG wavelength routers were designed, fabricated and characterized. An athermal device, associated with polarization-independence, was realized through properly matching the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the polymer substrate and the thermo optic coefficient of the polymer waveguide. The investigation on the wavelength trimming and dynamic matching range of all-polymer AWGs as well as the development of new polymers are currently being studied and will be reported at the conference.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; diffraction gratings; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical polymers; telecommunication network routing; thermo-optical effects; CTE; TO coefficient; all-polymer AWG wavelength routers; all-polymer AWGs; athermal all-polymer arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer; athermal device; coefficient of thermal expansion; polarization-independence; polymer substrate; polymer waveguide; wavelength trimming; Erbium; Gratings; Multiplexing; Optical films; Optical losses; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

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.2002.1036169

Filename

1036169