The integration of silica and polymer waveguide devices for ROADM applications

We report on our efforts to integrate silica and polymer waveguide devices, such as arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG's), tunable lenses, optical switches, variable optical attenuators (VOA's), power taps. In particular, the realizations of various optical add/drop multiplexers and tunable dispersion compensators are discussed. The integration techniques, the design architectures and the corresponding optical performances are presented.

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