Tunable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer Based on Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguides

Tao Chu; Hirohito Yamada; Satomi Ishida; Yasuhiko Arakawa

doi:10.1109/LPT.2006.877233

Tunable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer Based on Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguides

Tao Chu, Hirohito Yamada, Satomi Ishida, Yasuhiko Arakawa

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Abstract

A wavelength tunable optical add-drop multiplexer based on silicon photonic wire waveguides with Bragg-grating-reflectors was demonstrated by tuning the dropping wavelength through thermooptic effect. A 6.6-nm dropping wavelength shift was obtained at a 0.82-W heating power. For the device that is presently polarization-dependent, the 3-dB channel-dropping bandwidth was 0.4 nm and the extinction ratio at the dropping wavelength for port THROUGH was better than 17 dB for assuming 1.6-nm wavelength spacing dense wavelength-division multiplexing. The average tuning speed was about 200 μs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1409-1411
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2006.877233
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Gratings
Integrated optics
Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Optical waveguide components
Thermooptic effects
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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