Cascaded AMZ triplets: a class of demultiplexers having a monitor and control scheme enabling dense WDM on Si nano-waveguide PICs with ultralow crosstalk and high spectral efficiency

We propose a class of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) demultiplexers having a novel monitor and control scheme enabling dense WDM on Si nano-waveguide (NW) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which had been impossible due to the critically small fabrication tolerance of the extremely miniatu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2021-03, Vol.29 (6), p.7966-7985
Hauptverfasser: Akiyama, Tomoyuki, Oda, Shoichiro, Nakasha, Yasuhiro, Hayakawa, Akinori, Tanaka, Shinsuke, Tanaka, Yu, Hoshida, Takeshi
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Zusammenfassung:We propose a class of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) demultiplexers having a novel monitor and control scheme enabling dense WDM on Si nano-waveguide (NW) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which had been impossible due to the critically small fabrication tolerance of the extremely miniaturized waveguide structure. With a computer simulation, we show our proposed demultiplexers enable crosstalk in the range of -50 to -40 dB, flat-topped spectrum for high spectral efficiency, and channel counts as large as 64. We have experimentally evaluated the validity of this type of demultiplexers by using a 4-ch WDM demultiplexer, which has shown total crosstalk of < -49 dB as a result of fully automatic control of heaters. This technology is expected to drastically shrink the size of dense WDM transceivers, paving the way for future sustainable scalability in the capacity of optical transceiver systems.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.410379