Low-loss planar lightwave circuit OADM with high isolation and no polarization dependence

A passive optical add-drop multiplexer with 1 dB of insertion loss and 36 dB of isolation is fabricated by writing Bragg gratings in a waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer using ArF excimer laser light. The spectral properties and bit-error-rate performance of the device are fully characterized usi...

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Published inIEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 346 - 348
Main Authors Albert, J., Bilodeau, F., Johnson, D.C., Hill, K.O., Hattori, K., Kitagawa, T., Hibino, Y., Abe, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.1999
Subjects
Bragg gratings
Circuits
Devices
Excimer lasers
Insertion loss
Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Multiplexing
Noise levels
Optical add-drop multiplexers
Optical interferometry
Optical losses
Optical polarization
Optical waveguides
Polarization
Spectra
Waveguide lasers
Writing
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Summary:A passive optical add-drop multiplexer with 1 dB of insertion loss and 36 dB of isolation is fabricated by writing Bragg gratings in a waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer using ArF excimer laser light. The spectral properties and bit-error-rate performance of the device are fully characterized using polarized light.
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ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.748230