10-GHz and 20-GHz channel spacing high-resolution AWGs on InP

• This letter reports on 10-GHz and 20-GHz channel-spacing arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) based on InP technology. The dimensions of the AWGs are 6.8 × 8.2 mm2 and 5.0 × 6.0 mm2, respectively, and the devices show crosstalk levels of 12 dB for the 10-GHz and 17 dB for the 20-GHz AWG without any compensation for the phase errors in the arrayed waveguides. The root-mean-square phase errors for the center arrayed waveguides were characterized by using an optical vector network analyzer, and are 18° for the 10-GHz AWG and 28° for the 10-GHz AWG.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Integrated optics

Semiconductor waveguides

Waveguide filters

Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)

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