We present experimental verification of tree-dimensional (3D) 1x4 Y-branch splitter based on IP-Dip polymer as a core and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Sylgard 184 as a cladding. The splitter was designed to operate in a wavelength region around 1550 nm. The design parameters of the splitter were optimized according to required optical properties and technological limitations. Based on the simulation results, the 3D Y-branch splitter was realized using direct laser writing lithography. Cladding of the splitter was prepared by PDMS pouring and curing. The measurements were performed by coupling optical signal into the splitter using standard SM fiber. By intensity monitoring of CCD camera we successfully documented splitting of the input optical signal into four output signals.
We present the design and simulation of 20-channel, 50-GHz Si3N4 based AWG using three different commercial photonics tools, namely PHASAR from Optiwave Systems Inc., APSS from Apollo Photonics Inc. and RSoft from Synopsys Inc. For this purpose we created identical waveguide structures and identical AWG layouts in these tools and performed BPM simulations. For the simulations the same calculation conditions were used. These AWGs were designed for TM-polarized light with an AWG central wavelength of 850 nm. The output of all simulations, the transmission characteristics, were used to calculate the transmission parameters defining the optical properties of the simulated AWGs. These parameters were summarized and compared with each other. The results feature very good correlation between the tools and are comparable to the designed parameters in AWG-Parameters tool.
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