Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 428(2016)
Cross-cascaded AWG-based wavelength selective switching integrated module using polymer optical waveguide circuits
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
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)