Silicon-on-Insulator-Based Planar Circuit for Passive Optical Network Applications

Author

Bidnyk, Serge ; Feng, Dazeng ; Balakrishnan, Ashok ; Pearson, Matt ; Gao, Mae ; Liang, Hong ; Qian, Wei ; Kung, Cheng-Chih ; Fong, Joan ; Yin, Jeremy ; Asghari, Mehdi

Author_Institution

Enablence Inc., Ottawa, Ont.

Volume

18

Issue

22

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2392

Lastpage

2394

Abstract

A novel design of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) filter for passive optical network applications is described. The SOI filter comprises a monolithically integrated planar reflective grating and a multistage Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The fabricated device showed low insertion losses and high optical isolation. To the best of our knowledge, this letter describes the first demonstration of an SOI circuit comprising monolithically integrated planar reflective grating and cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; diffraction gratings; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical fibre networks; optical filters; optical isolators; optical losses; optical planar waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; insertion loss; monolithically integrated planar reflective grating; optical isolation; passive optical network; silicon-on-insulator filter; Circuits; Gratings; Insertion loss; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical losses; Passive filters; Passive optical networks; Silicon on insulator technology; Diffraction; gratings; monolithic integrated circuits; optical planar waveguide components; silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.885592

Filename

4012055