Highly reliable 32-channel wavelength-division demultiplexer (patent pending)

James W. Horwitz; Xuegong Deng; Al Morgan; Jie Qiao; Victor Ivan Villavicencio; Feng Zhao; Jizuo Zou; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/12.382885

21 April 2000 Highly reliable 32-channel wavelength-division demultiplexer (patent pending)

James W. Horwitz, Xuegong Deng, Al Morgan, Jie Qiao, Victor Ivan Villavicencio, Feng Zhao, Jizuo Zou, Ray T. Chen

Proceedings Volume 3949, WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382885
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A 32-channel wavelength-division demultiplexer has been designed and tested. Intended for commercial use, the instrument is designed to be rugged, stable, and insensitive to temperature variations. Operating in the 1.54-1.57-micrometers spectral range, the unit uses single-mode fiber input and multi-mode fiber output. The optics consists of a Littrow plane-grating spectrograph that uses the same lens for collimation and for focusing. In order to reduce the size of the device, the gratin is used at a large diffraction angle. A coarse ruling is used in a high diffraction order, which results in a device that has a low polarization-dependent loss. The mean insertion loss for all channels was 3.1 dB, and the standard deviation of the insertion loss was 0.23 dB. The mean channel bandwidth was 0.26 dB.

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James W. Horwitz, Xuegong Deng, Al Morgan, Jie Qiao, Victor Ivan Villavicencio, Feng Zhao, Jizuo Zou, and Ray T. Chen "Highly reliable 32-channel wavelength-division demultiplexer (patent pending)", Proc. SPIE 3949, WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications, (21 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382885

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