32-channel arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer using low loss fluorinated polymer operating around 1550 nm

A 32 × 32 arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer operating around the 1550 nm wavelength has been designed and fabricated using highly fluorinated polyethers. The propagation loss of the slab waveguide is about 0.3 dB/cm at 1550 nm wavelength. The channel spacing of the AWG multiplexer is 0.8 nm (100 GHz). The insertion loss of the multiplexer is 10.3-15.3 dB and the crosstalk is less than −20 dB.     

System degradation due to phase error induced crosstalk in WDM optical networks employing arrayed waveguide grating multi/demultiplexer

The phase error induced crosstalk within arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) have been investigated theoretically as well as simulation. For WDM system, a crosstalk level of −21.9 dB causes a power penalty of 1 dB for 64 channels and less than 0.5 dB for 16 channels and 32 channels, respectively. For crosstalk level of −30 dB and below, the power penalty is negligible. Crosstalk due to phase error also causes higher power penalty at higher bit rate. Bit rate of 10, 20 and 40 Gbits/s causes power penalty of 1 dB with crosstalk level of −41.5, −46.25 and −49 dB, respectively.     

Athermal silicon arrayed waveguide grating with polymer-filled slot structure

In this paper, an athermal silicon arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) with the assistance of a polymer-filled slot structure is proposed. Arrayed slot waveguides were used to replace arrayed silicon photonic wires (SPWs). By carefully controlling the temperature dependence of the effective index of the polymer-filled slot waveguides, the athermal silicon AWG is realized. Analysis shows that the center wavelength shift of the AWG can be down to 0.14 pm/°C.     

Athermal metal-free planar waveguide concave grating demultiplexer

An athermal metal-free planar waveguide concave grating demultiplexer is proposed. We designed the dielectric mirror at the grating facet instead of coating with the metal on the back wall of the grating facet. The transfer-matrix method is introduced to design the dielectric mirror and the reflectance spectral responses of the 2D waveguide structure are simulated using the FDTD software (RSoft, Inc.). To reduce the temperature sensitivity of the device, the three-focal-point method is introduced. We use the design example to show the high-reflectance bandwidth of the dielectric mirror. The fabrication errors are also taken into consideration. By using the numerical model of the scalar diffraction theory, the flat-top spectral responses of the channels are simulated.     

Analytical modeling of loss characteristics of a polymer arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer

Theoretical analysis is performed for the loss characteristics of a polymer arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer around the central wavelength of 1.55 μm with the wavelength spacing of 1.6 nm. The total loss of the device includes the diffraction loss in the input and output (I/O) slab waveguides, bent loss caused by the AWG and I/O channels, leakage loss resulted from the high refractive index substrate, and propagation loss due to the absorption and scattering of the materials of the device. The effects of some structural parameters on the loss characteristics are investigated and discussed. The computed results show that when we select the core thickness as 4 μm, core width as 6 μm, pitch of adjacent waveguides as 15.5 μm, diffraction order as 50, the number of the arrayed waveguides as 91, that of the I/O channels as 17, confined layer thickness between the core and the substrate as 10 μm, distance between the focal point and the origin as 5500 μm, and central angle between the central waveguide and the x-axis (i.e. the vertical of the symmetrical line of the device) as 60°, the total loss of the device can be dropped to the range 3.79–7.93 dB.     

Design and fabrication of arrayed waveguide grating using fluoropolymer PFS-co-GMA

A 33×33 polymer arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer is optimized and fabricated. This device is made of polymeric materials named 2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorostyrene-co-glycidylmethacrylate (PFS-co-GMA). The central wavelength and wavelength spacing are designed to be 1550.918 and 0.8 nm, respectively. The calculated results are: the 3-dB bandwidth is about 0.24 nm, insertion loss is about 8.4 dB and crosstalk is −33.7 dB. The corresponding measured results are: the center wavelength is about 1550.85 nm, wavelength channel spacing is about 0.81 nm, 3-dB bandwidth is about 0.35 nm, crosstalk is about −20 dB, insertion loss is between 10.4 dB for the central port and 11.9 dB for the edge ports.     

Analysis for fabrication errors of arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers

Based on the transmission theory, parameter optimization is performed, and effects of fabrication errors on transmission characteristics are analyzed for a 33×33 polymer arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer around the central wavelength of 1550.918 nm with the wavelength spacing of 0.8 nm. Simulated results show that fabrication errors result in the shift of the transmission spectrum, and lead to the increase of the crosstalk compared with the device theoretically designed. Furthermore, accumulation and compensation of fabrication errors are investigated. In order to realize the normal demultiplexing of the fabricated AWG device, the allowed fabrication errors are discussed.     

Compact SOI arrayed waveguide grating demultiplexer with broad spectral response

A compact eight-channel flat spectral response arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials has been fabricated on the planar lightwave circuit (PLC). The 1-dB bandwidth of 48 GHz and 3-dB bandwidth of 69 GHz are obtained for the 100 GHz channel spacing. Not only non-adjacent crosstalk but also adjacent crosstalk are less than −25 dB. The on-chip propagation loss range is from 3.5 to 3.9 dB, and the total device size is 1.5 × 1.0 cm².     

A novel asymmetric arrayed waveguide grating with different lengths of input/output slabs

A novel arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) with asymmetric configuration is proposed. In this configuration, the length of the output slab region, the width and the spacing of the output waveguides are unequal to the corresponding parts of the input ones. Compared to a conventional symmetric AWG, the asymmetric AWG proposed in this paper has a smaller size without degrading its performance The analytic method used in a conventional symmetric AWG is extended to the asymmetric AWG. A design example of an asymmetric AWG with low insertion loss, low channel crosstalk and wide bandwidth is presented.     

Performance analysis of metro WDM network based on an optical cross connects and arrayed waveguide grating demultiplexer

In this paper, we have demonstrated the quality-of-service offered by the metropolitan area network which is based on optical cross connect (OXC) and arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) demultiplexer operating at 10 Gb/s with 0.1 nm channel spacing for NRZ signal transmission. The data is successfully transmitted to a distance of 40 km with a reasonably good BER of 2.388 × 10⁻³⁵. The OXC and AWG demultiplexers in the proposed architecture allow incremental expansion in terms of the number of wavelength channels to be transmitted. Dispersion and crosstalk are the main signal-degrading factors arising from the operation of the OXC and the effectiveness of each factor is individually investigated.     

低插入损耗阵列波导光栅的设计

研究了阵列波导光栅的插入损耗.针对损耗来源,讨论了各项损耗的研究方法.分析了结构参量对损耗的影响,讨论了降低损耗的设计思路.对结构参量进行优化,设计了8通道200 GHz间隔的阵列波导光栅,中心通道插入损耗为1.37 dB,低于目前商用器件的1/2.对阵列波导光栅的设计具有一定的指导意义.     

UV-written long-period waveguide grating coupler for broadband add/drop multiplexing

We demonstrate a UV-written polymer long-period waveguide grating (LPWG) coupler, which offers a bandwidth of ∼20 nm, a maximum coupling efficiency of ∼80% and ∼60% for the TE and TM polarizations, respectively, and a wavelength-tuning range over the (S + C + L)-band (∼140 nm) with a temperature control of ∼25 °C. The LPWG coupler has the potential to be developed into a practical broadband add/drop multiplexer for coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing applications.     

Broadband arrayed waveguide gratings on InP

Broadband arrayed waveguide gratings on InP are presented using a novel S-shape design. This design was utilized to accommodate the large free spectral range required for broadband operation. Four and eight channel AWGs with a wavelength channel spacing of 18 nm are discussed. The output peaks of the AWGs have a wide FWHM of 11 nm which provides insensitive operation to polarization, temperature fluctuations, and chromatic dispersion.     

低热应力热稳定曲线型阵列波导光栅复用器

相对方形阵列波导光栅波分复用器芯片而言,采用曲线切割的复用器芯片可以成倍地增加单个晶圆上的复用器产出率,但是曲线切割复用器的中心波长更加容易受到热应力的影响,该热应力是由于封装盒与耦合到复用器芯片上的带状光纤之间的线膨胀系数差异所引起的.本文实验分析了封装热应力对复用器中心波长的影响,结果表明,封装热应力与复用器中心波长之间的变化成线性关系.即使采用比较软的硅橡胶将复用器上的带状光纤固定到封装盒上,对于热稳定封装的曲线复用器而言,当环境温度在-20~65℃之间变化时,其中心波长也会有46 pm的变化.通过在热稳定复用器封装用的加热片上贴一片高硼硅玻璃,同时将带状光纤用硅橡胶固定到高硼硅玻璃上的方法,既保证了带状光纤相对封装盒固定,又减小了它们之间线膨胀系数不一致导致的热应力.实验结果表明,在-20到65 ℃温度范围内,这种复用器模块的中心波长高低温变化典型值小于5 pm,而且光纤所受的应力典型值小于0.029 MPa.     

Modeling of arrayed waveguide grating for wavelength interrogation application

We have proposed and discussed a design of arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) for the application of wavelength interrogation. The spectral responses of a silica-based 16 channel AWG with channel spacing 1.6 nm have been simulated when different receiver waveguide spacing are used. It was found that the 3-dB bandwidth is reduced about 50% as the receiver waveguide spacing increasing from 20 μm to 30 μm. The effect of bandwidth of the spectral response on wavelength resolution of AWG based interrogator has been estimated and discussed.     

聚合物阵列波导光栅复用器关键技术的研究

介绍了阵列波导光栅(AWG)复用器的工作原理;运用光栅衍射理论和马卡提里近似法,对中心波长为1.55 μm,波长间隔为1.6 nm的聚合物AWG进行参量设计,通过数值模拟验证了设计的正确性.用甲基丙烯酸甲酯类聚合物对AWG的制备工艺进行了研究,用铝作掩模制作了聚合物光波导,测试结果表明在1.55 μm处波导实现单模传输.     

O波段8通道硅基二氧化硅平坦化阵列波导光栅的设计及制备

设计并制作了一款应用于IEEE200/400GbE标准802.3bs的阵列波导光栅.该阵列波导光栅使用2.0%的超高折射率差硅基二氧化硅材料,使得芯片尺寸及损耗较小.为了获得平坦化的接收光谱,将输出波导进行展宽,采用多模波导结构,激发若干个高阶模,数个模式叠加使得原本高斯状的光谱顶部产生平坦化,形成箱形接收光谱.设计的阵列波导光栅的中心波长为1291.10nm,通道间隔为800GHz,芯片尺寸为11mm×4mm.经过等离子增强化学气相沉积和感应耦合等离子刻蚀工艺制备了芯片,测试结果表明最小的插入损耗为-3.3dB,相邻通道间串扰小于-20dB,单通道1dB带宽在2.12~3.06nm范围,实现了良好的解复用和平坦化效果,在实际光通信系统中有一定的实用价值.     

Resonant waveguide grating: Analysis of polarization independent filtering

We investigate the property of polarization independent reflection using a 1D grating. It is shown to be possible, by choosing the correct parameters of the structure and angle of incidence to adjust the bandwidth of the reflection curves for both polarizations in such a way that these coincide. We expect that the found polarization-independent narrow band filter can be used as a component for WDM applications.     

Novel wavelength-accurate InP-based arrayed waveguide grating

A 13-channel, InP-based arrayed waveguide grating （AWG） is designed and fabricated in which the on-chip loss of the central channel is about -5 dB and the crosstalk is less than -23 dB in the center of the spectrum response. However, the central wavelength and channel spacing are deviated from the design values. To improve their accuracy, an optimized design is adopted to compensate the process error. As a result, the central wavelength 1549.9 nm and channel spacing 1.59 nm are obtained in the experiment, while their design values are 1549.32 nm and 1.6 nm, respectively. The route capability and thermo-optic characteristic of the AWG are also discussed in detail.     

紫外固化型聚合物高阶布拉格波导光栅滤波器

利用紫外固化材料SU-82005与热交联聚合物甲基丙烯酸甲酯一甲基丙烯酸缩水甘油酯[P（MMA—GMA）]分别作为波导芯层和包层材料,通过直接光刻技术,成功实现了厚度为5μm,宽度为9μm,光栅高度为4μm的起伏型高阶布拉格波导光栅滤波器。对光栅器件的谐振波长,光透射率等重要参数进行了模拟设计。测得制备的聚合物高阶布拉格波导光栅滤波器的谐振波长为1550．4nm,消光比为23dB,3-dB带宽为2nm。