A flattop PLC polymer waveguide interleaver based on folded two-stage-cascaded Y-junction Mach-Zehnder interferometers |
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| Authors: | Wai Ying Chan Hau Ping Chan Bishnu P Pal RK Varshney |
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| Institution: | a Optoelectronic Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
b Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India |
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| Abstract: | We demonstrate realization of a flattop Y-Junction Planar Optical Waveguide Interleaver (YJPOWI) with a channel spacing of 100 GHz through a novel scheme of folded cascaded two-stage unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) fabricated on a polymer Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) platform. The characteristic 0.5 dB passbands of the interleaver centered at ITU wavelength grids at its two output ports were 50 and 45 GHz, respectively. The operating bandwidth of the device spanned the entire C band of a fiber amplifier and it is compact in size (1.3 × 1.4 cm2). In addition, the device is easy to fabricate and do not require any individual heater to trim its performance. |
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| Keywords: | Integrated optics devices Polymer planar waveguides Wavelength filtering devices Folded structures Y-junction |
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