1. R & D Department, NHK S pring C o., Ltd., 3 -10 Fukuura Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0004 Japan 2. Faculty of Engineering, Hosei University, 3 -7-2 Kajino-cho Koganei, Tokyo 184-8584 Japan
Abstract:
Phase adjustment elements called islands and peninsulas are introduced to obtain an AWG demultiplexer with a flat spectral response. Use of the peninsulas enables us to achieve a 1dB bandwidth of 0.5 nm.