Chip-scale fully reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing subsystem in polymer microphotonic circuits

Tomoyuki Izuhara; Junichiro Fujita; Antonije Radojevic; Reinald Gerhardt; Louay A. Eldada

doi:10.1117/12.560233

8 October 2004 Chip-scale fully reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing subsystem in polymer microphotonic circuits

Tomoyuki Izuhara, Junichiro Fujita, Antonije Radojevic, Reinald Gerhardt, Louay A. Eldada

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Proceedings Volume 5515, Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560233
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We report on a highly integrated photonic circuit using a polymer-based planar waveguide system. The properties of the materials used in this work such as ultra-low optical loss, widely tunable refractive index, and large thermo-optic coefficient, enable a multi-functional chip-scale microphotonic circuit. We discuss the application of this technology to the fabrication of a fully reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer. This subsystem includes channel switching, power monitoring, load balancing, and wavelength shuffling functionalities that are required for agile wavelength-division multiplexing optical networks. Optical properties of our material systems and performance characteristics of the implemented optical passive/active elements are presented, and the integration schemes of the devices to achieve a fully integrated reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer are discussed.

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Tomoyuki Izuhara, Junichiro Fujita, Antonije Radojevic, Reinald Gerhardt, and Louay A. Eldada "Chip-scale fully reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing subsystem in polymer microphotonic circuits", Proc. SPIE 5515, Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices, (8 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560233

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