Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 428(2016)

Cross-cascaded AWG-based wavelength selective switching integrated module using polymer optical waveguide circuits

Changming CHEN and Daming ZHANG*
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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    100-GHz cross-cascaded arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs)-based wavelength selective optical switching optical cross-connects (OXCs) modules with Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) thermo-optic (TO) variable optical attenuator (VOA) arrays and optical truetime- delay (TTD) line arrays is successfully designed and fabricated using polymer photonic lightwave circuit. Highly fluorinated photopolymer and grafting modified organic-inorganic hybrid material were synthesized as the waveguide core and cladding, respectively. The one-chip transmission loss is ~6 dB and the crosstalk is less than ~30 dB for the transverse-magnetic (TM) mode. The actual maximum modulation depths of different thermo-optic switches are similar, ~15.5 dB with 1.9 V bias. The maximum power consumption of a single switch is less than 10mW. The delay time basic increments are measured from 140 to 20 ps. Proposed novel module is flexible and scalable for the dense wavelength division multiplexing network.

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    Changming CHEN, Daming ZHANG. Cross-cascaded AWG-based wavelength selective switching integrated module using polymer optical waveguide circuits[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(3): 428

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Nov. 11, 2015

    Accepted: Jun. 15, 2016

    Published Online: Nov. 23, 2016

    The Author Email: ZHANG Daming (zhangdm@jlu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-016-0591-6

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