Passband broadening of integrated arrayed waveguide filters using multimode interference couplers

被引:87
作者
Amersfoort, MR
Soole, JBD
LeBlanc, HP
Andreadakis, NC
Rajhel, A
Caneau, C
机构
[1] Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ 07701
关键词
integrated optics; optical waveguide filters;
D O I
10.1049/el:19960344
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Passband broadening of arrayed waveguide filters that are compatible with singlemode fibre is demonstrated using an integrated multimode interference coupler at the entrance to the star coupler. An 8 x 1.6nm filter is realised for the 1.55 mu m band with 0.75nm-wide -1dB passbands and -20dB rejection at >1.7nm bandwidth.
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页码:449 / 451
页数:3
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