Publication detail

Authors:	W. Bogaerts, D. Taillaert, P. Dumon, E. Pluk, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets
Title:	A Compact Polarization-Independent Wavelength Duplexer Using a Polarization-Diversity SOI Photonic Wire Circuit
Format:	International Conference Proceedings
Publication date:	3/2007
Journal/Conference/Book:	Optical Fiber Communications
Volume(Issue):	p.OTuM2
Location:	Anahaim, United States
Internal Reference:	[N-580]
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Abstract

We present a wavelength duplexer in silicon-on-insulator photonic wires. We made a polarization-diversity circuit using fiber grating couplers with polarization splitter and a bidirectional AWG, resulting in a polarization dependent loss of only 0.66dB.

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• Silicon (nano)photonic devices fabrication with 193nm and 248nm (DUV) Optical lithography
• Low-loss Nanophotonic waveguides
• WDM components
• 2D grating fibre coupler used as polarization splitter (2002-2010)

Related Projects

• IAP-V: PHOTON (Photons and Photonics : from basic physics to system concepts)
• IST: ePIXnet (European Network of Excellence on Photonic Integrated Components and Circuits)