Polymer-based wavelength multi/demultiplexer using multimode interference

Author

Jung Woon Lim ; Woo-Jin Lee ; Tao Ho Lee ; Jeong, Myung Yong ; Kim, Boo-Gyoun ; Byung Sup Rho

Author_Institution

Integrated Opt. Module Lab., Korea Photonics Technol. Inst., Gwangju

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A polymer-based wavelength division multiplex (WDM) filter based on multimode interference for 1.31/1.55- mum bi-directional operations has been proposed and demostrated. The polymer WDM filter in poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) was fabricated by the hot embossing technique. For the 1.31 and 1.55-mum, the measured insertion losses were 8.2 and 9.7-dB, and optical contrasts were 18.2 and 25.8-dB, respectively.

Keywords

embossing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre filters; polymers; wavelength division multiplexing; bidirectional operations; hot embossing technique; multimode interference; poly methyl methacrylate; polymer-based wavelength multiplexer; wavelength 1.31 mum; wavelength 1.55 mum; wavelength demultiplexer; wavelength division multiplex filter; Bidirectional control; Embossing; Insertion loss; Interference; Loss measurement; Optical filters; Optical losses; Polymers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the

Conference_Location

Sydney

Print_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610353

Filename

4610353