Title :
Narrow band and tunable filters of a polysilane optical waveguide grating for OADM
Author :
Kobayashi, Soichi ; Sawada, Masayuki ; Suda, Toshihiro ; Ogura, Kouhei ; Tsushima, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Photonics Syst., Chitose Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Hokkaido, Japan
Abstract :
A tunable Bragg grating filter with a reflected bandwidth of 0.7 nm and a wavelength shift to temperature change of 0.1 nm/°C in the polysilane waveguides has been fabricated by a two-beam interference photobleaching method with a He-Cd laser.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; optical filters; optical polymers; optical saturable absorption; optical tuning; optical waveguides; He-Cd; He-Cd laser; OADM; narrow band filter; polysilane optical waveguide grating; polysilane waveguides; reflected bandwidth; tunable Bragg grating filter; two-beam interference photobleaching; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Interference; Narrowband; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical filters; Optical waveguides; Temperature; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide transitions;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548241
