• DocumentCode
    2844941
  • Title

    Ultrawide-passband tandem MZI-synchronized AWG and group delay ripple balancing out technique

  • Author

    Oguma, M. ; Kitoh, T. ; Mori, A. ; Takahashi, H.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate a novel wide passband MZI-synchronized AWG and a simple way to eliminate its group delay ripple. We obtained a 0.5-dB passband of 69 GHz and a 0.5 ps total GDR for a dispersion balanced out pair.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; arrayed waveguide gratings; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; arrayed waveguide gratings; group delay ripple balancing out technique; passband MZI-synchronized AWG; ultrawide-passband tandem MZI-synchronized AWG; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Converters; Delay; Dispersion; Optical interferometry; Passband; Synchronization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621255
  • Filename
    5621255