A proposed design for ultralow-loss waveguide grating routers

被引:14
作者
Chen, JC [1 ]
Dragone, C [1 ]
机构
[1] AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technol, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA
关键词
integrated optics; optical waveguide theory; phased arrays; waveguide components; wavelength-division multiplexing;
D O I
10.1109/68.661416
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 propose a design for a dense wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) demultiplexer whose total fiber-to-fiber insertion loss can be as low as 0.3881 dB. Our three-dimensional (3-D) models-beam propagation and mode solver-show that waveguide bending losses and fiber coupling losses are almost insignificant. Most of the loss comes from the star couplers and from material losses.
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