Packaging technologies for large-scale integrated-optic planar lightwave circuits

Summary form only given. Packaging technologies are important in order to utilize planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) practically in indoor and outdoor environments. There is no clear guideline for categorizing large-scale integrated-optic PLCs. However, in this paper, a star coupler and an arrayed-wav...

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Published inOptical Fiber Communications, OFC pp. 99 - 100
Main Author Kato, K.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1996
Subjects
Coupling circuits
Gratings
Guidelines
Integrated circuit technology
Large scale integration
Optical arrays
Optical coupling
Optical switches
Packaging
Programmable control
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Summary:Summary form only given. Packaging technologies are important in order to utilize planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) practically in indoor and outdoor environments. There is no clear guideline for categorizing large-scale integrated-optic PLCs. However, in this paper, a star coupler and an arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexer with channel number more than 32, and a matrix optical switch with a scale more than 8/spl times/8, are categorized as large-scale PLCs because of their large channel-number or large number of switch elements. Developmental objectives and techniques for packaging large-scale integrated-optic PLCs are described.
ISBN:9781557524225
155752422X
DOI:10.1109/OFC.1996.907677