Polymer-based photonic toolbox: passive components, hybrid integration and polarisation control

The authors have showcased their polymer-based photonic toolbox with various functionalities, which can be chosen, manipulated and combined. In the category of passive components, low-loss planar waveguides, on-chip fibre grooves and integrated thin film elements can be applied for wave guiding/spli...

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Published inIET optoelectronics Vol. 5; no. 5; pp. 226 - 232
Main Authors Zhang, Z, Mettbach, N, Zawadzki, C, Wang, J, Schmidt, D, Brinker, W, Grote, N, Schell, M, Keil, N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Stevenage The Institution of Engineering & Technology 01.10.2011
Subjects
Arrays
Categories
Fibre
Grooves
Interferometers
Noise levels
Passive components
Photonics
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Summary:The authors have showcased their polymer-based photonic toolbox with various functionalities, which can be chosen, manipulated and combined. In the category of passive components, low-loss planar waveguides, on-chip fibre grooves and integrated thin film elements can be applied for wave guiding/splitting, multiplexing etc. In particular, on-chip grooves provide secure and automatable fibre attachment with coupling loss less than 0.2 dB per facet. The toolbox also features solutions for hybrid integration with active components. Four-channel detector arrays, for example, for IEEE 100 GbE applications, with 3 dB bandwidth exceeding 25 GHz have been demonstrated. An inserted half-wave plate, together with micro-heaters can eliminate the polarisation-dependent frequency shift in a delay line interferometer, for example, for differential phase shift keying and differential quadrature phase shift keying receiver.
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ISSN:1751-8768
1751-8776
DOI:10.1049/iet-opt.2010.0054