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Tunable and Polarization-Insensitive Arrayed-Waveguide Grating Multiplexer Fabricated from Fluorinated Polyimides
Junya KOBAYASHI Yasuyuki INOUE Tohru MATSUURA Tohru MARUNO
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Vol.E81-C
No.7
pp.1020-1026 Publication Date: 1998/07/25 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Organic Materials for Optics and Electronics) Category: Keyword: fluorinated polyimide, arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG), multiplexer, polymer optical waveguide, polarization-insensitivity, tunable AWG,
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Summary:
We fabricated a tunable and polarization-insensitive arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) 16 16 multiplexer that operates around the wavelength of 1. 55 µm using fluorinated polyimides. The wavelength channel spacing was 0. 8 nm, and the 3-dB passband width was 0. 26 nm. The insertion loss at each channel was from 8 to 12 dB, and the crosstalk was less than -28 dB. The transmission pass wavelength was tuned over a wide range of 6 nm by heating from 24 to 64 . The slope of the temperature dependence of the pass wavelength was -0. 15 nm/ , which is ten times that of a silica-based multiplexer. Polarization-insensitivity was achieved by fabricating a film AWG multiplexer, which was formed by removing the silicon substrate and annealing at 350 . The polarization-dependent wavelength shift was smaller than the spectrum analyzers wavelength resolution of 0. 1 nm.
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