Ultrafast laser written arrayed waveguide gratings with integrated photonic lanterns (Conference Presentation)

Glen Douglass; Simon Gross; Michael J. Withford

doi:10.1117/12.2274494

19 September 2017 Ultrafast laser written arrayed waveguide gratings with integrated photonic lanterns (Conference Presentation)

Glen Douglass, Simon Gross, Michael J. Withford

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Proceedings Volume 10382, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications XI; 103820S (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274494
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) are typically used by the telecommunications industry as (de)multiplexers. However, recently they have successfully been demonstrated as integrated sensors for applications such as biomedical and astronomical spectrographs. Unfortunately, advancement is generally stalled by development costs and time; or restricted to spectral regions covered by off-the-shelf lithographic produced AWGs. To broaden the potential applications of integrated spectrographs employing AWGs, we utilise the femtosecond laser direct write technique as a rapid-prototyping platform for fabricating AWGs. The AWGs fabricated operate at 633nm, have a free spectral range of 22.4nm, resolution of 1.35nm, resolving power of 468.7, a throughput of 11.47% across the 5 main orders, and 3.97% in the central 28th order. This mask-less process enables complete design freedom, takes approximately 2hours from completed design to finalized device, thus facilitating design feedback to easily fine tune the device specifications. In some applications multimode fibres are used for efficient light collection, thus leading to large losses when coupling into single mode devices such as AWGs. A solution is to utilize a 3-dimensional photonic lantern. A photonic lantern converts multimode light into multiple single-mode waveguides that can then be individually launched into an AWG. While the AWG is only a 2-dimensional device the laser direct write technique enables 3-dimensional fabrication. Thus supporting the integration of a photonic lantern and AWG into a single monolithic chip, removing coupling losses while increasing the functionality of the AWG. Currently we have demonstrated the integration of a 3 port photonic lantern.

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Glen Douglass, Simon Gross, and Michael J. Withford "Ultrafast laser written arrayed waveguide gratings with integrated photonic lanterns (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10382, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications XI, 103820S (19 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274494

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Waveguides

Spectrographs

Fabrication

Femtosecond phenomena

Spectral resolution

Integrated photonics

Sensors

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