New Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) Platform Eliminating Si Terraces and Its Application to Opto-electronic Hybrid Integrated Modules

Takashi YAMADA  Toshikazu HASHIMOTO  Takaharu OHYAMA  Yuji AKAHORI  Akimasa KANEKO  Kazutoshi KATO  Ryouichi KASAHARA  Mikitaka ITO  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E84-B   No.5   pp.1311-1318
Publication Date: 2001/05/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications)
Category: Optical Passive Devices and Modules
Keyword: 
PLC platform structure eliminating Si terraces,  hybrid integration technique,  optical transceiver module,  8-channel multi-wavelength photoreceiver,  

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Summary: 
We have developed a new planar lightwave circuit (PLC) platform eliminating Si terraces for hybrid integrated optical modules. This PLC platform has the advantage of a lower fabrication cost than the conventional PLC platform with an Si terrace, because it does not require fabrication processes such as Si terrace forming and mechanical polishing. Using our new PLC platform structure, we fabricated a transceiver for optical access networks and an 8-channel multi-channel photoreceiver for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) interconnection systems.