Tunable InP/air gap Fabry Perot filter for wavelength division multiplex fiber optical transmission

Author

Daleiden, J. ; Chitica, N. ; Strassner, M. ; Spisser, A. ; Leclercq, J.L. ; Viktorovitch, P. ; Rondi, D. ; Goutin, E. ; Peerlings, J. ; Pfeiffer, J. ; Riemenschneider, R. ; Hjort, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., R. Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

287

Abstract

An InP-based widely tunable and highly selective surface micromachined Fabry Perot filter for λ=1.55 μm is demonstrated. We present for the first time transmission measurements in a fiber-to-fiber setup and show that the devices are compatible with the demands of WDM optical fiber transmission. The full width at half maximum of the device is approximately 0:4 nm with an insertion loss of -3 dB. The crosstalk to a 1.6 nm spaced channel is -20 dB. The entire tuning range is 62 nm for an actuation voltage of 14 V whereas the FWHM is kept below 1 nm over a 40 nm tuning range

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical filters; wavelength division multiplexing; -3 dB; 1.55 mum; 14 V; InP; WDM; actuation voltage; crosstalk; fiber-to-fiber setup; full width at half maximum; highly selective surface micromachined Fabry Perot filter; insertion loss; transmission measurements; tunable InP/air gap Fabry Perot filter; tuning range; wavelength division multiplex fiber optical transmission; Indium phosphide; Insertion loss; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Optical surface waves; Time measurement; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 1999. IPRM. 1999 Eleventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Davos

ISSN

1092-8669

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5562-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPRM.1999.773690

Filename

773690