Ultrawide-passband tandem MZI-synchronized AWG and group delay ripple balancing out technique
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Oguma, M.; Kitoh, T.; Mori, A.; Takahashi, H.
- Source
- 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on. :1-3 Sep, 2010
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Passband
Delay
Synchronization
Dispersion
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Optical interferometry
Converters
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
We propose and demonstrate a novel wide passband MZI-synchronized AWG and a simple way to eliminate its group delay ripple. We obtained a 0.5-dB passband of 69 GHz and a 0.5 ps total GDR for a dispersion balanced out pair.