Improvement of the channel crosstalk in narrow channel spacing arrayed waveguide gratings applying specially shaped couplers

Dana Seyringer

doi:10.1117/12.864771

17 May 2010 Improvement of the channel crosstalk in narrow channel spacing arrayed waveguide gratings applying specially shaped couplers

Dana Seyringer

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Proceedings Volume 7719, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits II; 771923 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864771
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) play a key role in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. While the standard channel count (up to 40) and standard channel spacing (100 GHz or 50 GHz) AWGs feature very good transmission characteristics, increasing the channel counts and narrowing the channel spacings leads to a rapid increase in the AWG size and this, in turn; causes the deterioration in optical performance like higher insertion loss and, in particular, higher channel crosstalk. Channel crosstalk is a result of amplitude errors of the far field profile at the end of the input coupler and phase errors appearing in the phased array as a result of possible effective index and geometrical irregularities of the arrayed waveguides. I our work we show that keeping the length of arrayed waveguides short and using specially-shaped couplers, both phase and amplitude errors can be minimized and, as such, the channel crosstalk strongly improved. To demonstrate this effect, we designed 256-channel, 25 GHz AWG with both, standard and also with specially-shaped couplers. The far field distribution at the end of standard input coupler features strong amplitude errors causing the high channel crosstalk and particularly very high background crosstalk. Applying the specially-shaped couplers led to elimination of amplitude errors in the far field distribution and this had a positive effect on the transmission characteristics. The adjacent crosstalk was improved by ~ 4 dB, non-adjacent crosstalk was improved by ~ 5 dB and background crosstalk by about 10 dB.

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Dana Seyringer "Improvement of the channel crosstalk in narrow channel spacing arrayed waveguide gratings applying specially shaped couplers", Proc. SPIE 7719, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits II, 771923 (17 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864771

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Waveguides

Phased array optics

Dense wavelength division multiplexing

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Channel projecting optics

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