Silicon-on-Insulator-Based Planar Circuit for Passive Optical Network Applications

A novel design of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) filter for passive optical network applications is described. The SOI filter comprises a monolithically integrated planar reflective grating and a multistage Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The fabricated device showed low insertion losses and high optical isolation. To the best of our knowledge, this letter describes the first demonstration of an SOI circuit comprising monolithically integrated planar reflective grating and cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer

[1]  Yun-Kyung Oh,et al.  Bragg grating-assisted WDM filter for integrated optical triplexer transceivers , 2005 .

[2]  K. Okamoto.  Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides , 2000 .

[3]  F. Coppinger,et al.  Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) phased-array wavelength multi/demultiplexer with extremely low-polarization sensitivity , 1997, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[4]  M. Pearson,et al.  Cascaded optical microspectrometer based on additive dispersion planar gratings , 2006, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[5]  Adam Densmore,et al.  InP-based photonic integrated circuit triplexer for FTTP applications , 2005 .

[6]  M. Pearson,et al.  PLC platform for low-cost optical access components , 2005, 2005 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings.

[7]  M. Pearson,et al.  Planar comb filters based on aberration-free elliptical grating facets , 2005, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[8]  Trevor J. Hall,et al.  Configurable coarse wavelength division demultiplexers based on planar reflective gratings , 2006 .

[9]  Andre Delage,et al.  Monolithic integrated wavelength demultiplexer based on a waveguide Rowland circle grating in InGaAsP/lnP , 1998 .

[10]  M. Pearson,et al.  Novel architecture for design of planar lightwave interleavers , 2005, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[11]  A. Yariv.  Coupled-mode theory for guided-wave optics , 1973 .

[12]  S. Janz,et al.  Design of polarization-insensitive ring resonators in silicon-on-insulator using MMI couplers and cladding stress engineering , 2006, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[13]  M. Pearson,et al.  Planar waveguide echelle gratings in silica-on-silicon , 2004, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[14]  H. Blauvelt,et al.  High performance planar lightwave circuit triplexer with passive optical assembly , 2005, OFC/NFOEC Technical Digest. Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005..

[15]  Wei-Ping Huang,et al.  A novel planar waveguide wavelength demultiplexer design for integrated optical triplexer transceiver , 2005 .

[16]  Henry Schriemer,et al.  Optical filter based on subtractive dispersion planar reflective gratings , 2006 .