A new planar lightwave circuit platform for cost-effective optical hybrid modules

Author

Yanagisawa, Masahiro ; Moriwaki, Kazuyuki ; Yasu, Mitsuho ; Shuto, Keizo ; Hibino, Yoshinori ; Hashimoto, Toshikazu ; Yamada, Yasufumi ; Inoue, Yasuyuki

Author_Institution

NTT Opto-Electron. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

18-21 Nov. 1996

Firstpage

77

Abstract

We proposed a new planar lightwave circuit (PLC) platform using a silicon-on-terraced-silicon (STS) structure for hybrid optical modules which reduces the fabrication time by 20%. We used this platform to fabricate an optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmitter/receiver module whose performance is as good as that of a conventional module. The new platform is expected to make such optical hybrid modules cost-effective and applicable to fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) systems.

Keywords

integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; FTTH system; fabrication; optical WDM transmitter/receiver; optical hybrid module; planar lightwave circuit platform; silicon-on-terraced-silicon structure; Circuits; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical filters; Optical surface waves; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Programmable control; Sociotechnical systems; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1996. LEOS 96., IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3160-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1996.565131

Filename

565131