Colorless tunable optical dispersion compensator based on a silica arrayed-waveguide grating and a polymer thermooptic lens

被引：23

作者：

Doerr, CR

Blum, R

Buhl, LL

Cappuzzo, MA

Chen, EY

Wong-Foy, A

Gomez, LT

Bulthuis, H

机构：

[1] Bell Labs, Lucent Technol, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA

[2] Gemfire Corp, Fremont, CA 94301 USA

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2006年 / 18卷 / 9-12期

关键词：

gratings; optical equalizers; optical fiber dispersion; optical polymers; optical waveguides; thermooptic effects;

D O I：

10.1109/LPT.2006.874676

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：

We present a colorless tunable optical dispersion compensator (TODC) comprised of a silica arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) directly coupled to a polymer thermooptic lens. Using silica for the AWG allows it to be low loss and manufactured by a standard process, and using polymer for the thermooptic lens allows it to have a large tuning range and low electrical power consumption. This hybrid TODC is fully solid-state and scales to a large figure-of-merit (dispersion range times bandwidth squared). We demonstrate a version with 100-GHz free-spectral range and 1300-ps/nm tuning range with a 3-dB bandwidth > 39 GHz and a lens power consumption < 74 mW.

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页数：3

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