Optimization and fabrication of a polymeric-arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer

An arrayed-waveguide grating multiplexer is demonstrated, which is successfully designed and fabricated . A wavelength channel spacing was 1 .6nm, a crosstalk of less than —20dB and the insertion loss was 7-12dB around 1.55?m. The polarization-dependent wavelength shift was very small without special compensation methods.