Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology-based Optical Interleavers

Author

Chan, H.P. ; Wu, Q. ; Chen, K.X. ; Chan, Y.W. ; Pal, B.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We review our recent works on the realization of planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology-based optical interleavers. Commercially available polymer materials were used to fabricate the devices and we implemented our designs using two different configurations. The first is based on a folded two-stage-cascaded Y-junction MZI interleavers which offers a flat-top 100 GHz channel spacing over the entire C-band. The second is based on a three-dimensional structure which allows selectable channel spacing and adjustable flat-top using thermooptic effect. This interleaver is made of two waveguides laid in two different but parallel layers.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; channel spacing; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical planar waveguides; optical polymers; optical waveguide components; thermo-optical effects; PLC; channel spacing; folded two-stage-cascaded Y-junction MZI interleaver; frequency 100 GHz; optical interleaver fabrication; planar lightwave circuit technology; polymer material; thermooptic effect; three-dimensional structure; Channel spacing; Circuits; Optical filters; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Paper technology; Programmable control; filter; optical interleaver; polymer; three dimension; tunable; y-junction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PhotonicsGlobal@Singapore, 2008. IPGC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3901-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2906-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPGC.2008.4781444

Filename

4781444