DWDM data receiver based on monolithic integration of an echelle grating demultiplexer and waveguide photodiodes

Author

Densmore, A. ; Tolstikhin, V.I. ; Pimenov, K.

Author_Institution

MetroPhotonics Inc., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

41

Issue

13

fYear

2005

fDate

6/23/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

766

Lastpage

767

Abstract

A practical approach for the design and manufacture of a monolithically integrated, multiple wavelength data receiver is presented. It utilises an InP-based, birefringence compensated echelle grating demultiplexer and high speed, singlemode, vertically integrated waveguide photodiodes. As an example of this approach, a 32-channel, C-band, polarisation independent data receiver chip operating at OC-3 (155 Mbit/s) bit rate is demonstrated with a compact footprint of 5×16 mm.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; data communication equipment; demultiplexing equipment; diffraction gratings; indium compounds; integrated optoelectronics; optical receivers; photodiodes; wavelength division multiplexing; 155 Mbit/s; 16 mm; 32-channel data receiver chip; 5 mm; C-band polarisation independent data receiver; DWDM data receiver; InP; OC-3 bit rate; dense wavelength division multiplexing; echelle grating demultiplexer; monolithic integration; multiple wavelength data receiver; vertically integrated waveguide photodiodes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20051130

Filename

1459892