IEICE Trans - Hybrid Integration Technologies Using Planar Lightwave Circuits and Developed Components

Hybrid Integration Technologies Using Planar Lightwave Circuits and Developed Components

Takeshi KITAGAWA  Yuji AKAHORI  Ikuo OGAWA  Yuichi TOHMORI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E85-C    No.4    pp.1009-1017
Publication Date: 2002/04/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Recent Progress of Integrated Photonic Devices)
Category: Hybrid and Passive Devices
Keyword:
optical hybrid integration,  planar lightwave circuit,  silica-based optical waveguide,  semiconductor optical devices,

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Summary:
We describe hybrid integration technologies that employ silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) platforms, and report several high-performance optical components based on these technologies. First, we describe the requirements for optical integrated circuits. Then, we discuss the technologies used in hybrid integration, namely optical coupling between a semiconductor optical device and a silica waveguide, electrical signal transmission to the semiconductor optical device, and high quality optical signal processing. In addition, we describe optical integrated circuits developed for short- and long-haul networks. We realized these high-performance integrated components by combining appropriate hybrid integration technologies.