Open AccessFour-channel reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer based on photonic wire waveguide
Author(s) -
Meiyu Geng,
Litao Jia,
Lei Zhang,
Lin Yang,
Ping Chen,
Tong Wang,
Yuliang Liu
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.005502
Subject(s) - multiplexer , optics , materials science , insertion loss , optical add drop multiplexer , silicon photonics , bandwidth (computing) , optoelectronics , waveguide , photonic integrated circuit , photonics , optical power , drop (telecommunication) , multiplexing , wavelength division multiplexing , optical performance monitoring , physics , telecommunications , computer science , wavelength , laser
We designed and fabricated a four-channel reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer based on silicon photonic wire waveguide controlled through thermo-optic effect. The effective footprint of the device is about 1000 x 500 microm(2). The minimum insertion loss is about 10.7 dB and the tuning bandwidth about 17 nm. The average tuning power efficiency is about 6.187 mW/nm and the tuning speed about 24.4 kHz. The thermo-optic polarization-rotation effect is firstly reported in this paper.