Demultiplexing characteristics of tunable optical ADM consisting of coupled semiconductor waveguides and a striped thin-film heater

Author

Horita, Masayoshi ; Yazaki, Tomonori ; Tanaka, Shinsuke ; Matsushima, Yuichi

Author_Institution

KDD R&D Labs. Inc., Saitama, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

1558

Abstract

Tunable demultiplexing operation of four 5 Gb/s WDM signals with a channel spacing of 0.8 nm is successfully demonstrated by using an semiconductor OADM device, which consists of vertically stacked and contra-directionally coupled InGaAsP/InP waveguides and a striped thin-film heater.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; demultiplexing equipment; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; optical fibre communication; optical tuning; rib waveguides; ridge waveguides; wavelength division multiplexing; 5 Gbit/s; InGaAsP-InP; coupled semiconductor waveguides; demultiplexing characteristics; semiconductor OADM device; striped thin-film heater; tunable demultiplexing operation; tunable optical ADM; vertically stacked contra-directionally coupled InGaAsP/InP waveguides; Channel spacing; Demultiplexing; Filters; Indium phosphide; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical coupling; Optical films; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor waveguides; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.820584

Filename

820584