An ultra compact triplexing filter was designed based on a silicon on insulator（SOI） nanowire arrayed waveguide grating（AWG） for fiber-to-the-home FTTH.The simulation results revealed that the design performed well in the sense of having a good triplexing function.The designed SOI nanowire AWGs were fabricated using ultraviolet lithography and induced coupler plasma etching.The experimental results showed that the crosstalk was less than -15 dB,and the 3 dB-bandwidth was 11.04 nm.The peak wavelength output from ports a,c,and b were 1455,1510 and 1300 nm,respectively,which deviated from our original expectations.The deviation of the wavelength is mainly caused by 45 nm width deviation of the arrayed waveguides during the course of the fabrication process and partly caused by material dispersion.
A 16 channel arrayed waveguide grating demultiplexer with 200 GHz channel spacing based on Si nanowire waveguides is designed. The transmission spectra response simulated by transmission function method shows that the device has channel spacing of 1.6 nm and crosstalk of 31 dB. The device is fabricated by 193 nm deep UV lithography in silicon-on-substrate. The demultiplexing characteristics are observed with crosstalk of 5-8 dB, central channel＇s insertion loss of 2.2 dB, flee spectral range of 24.7 nm and average channel spacing of 1.475 nm. The cause of the spectral distortion is analyzed specifically.
A new-style silica planar lightwave circuit（PLC） hybrid integrated triplexer,which can demultiplex 1490- nm download data and 1550-nm download analog signals,as well as transmit 1310-nm upload data,is presented.It combines SiO2 arrayed waveguide gratings（AWGs） with integrated photodetectors（PDs） and a high performance laser diode（LD）.The SiO2 AWGs realize the three-wavelength coarse wavelength-division multiplexing（CWDM）.The crosstalk is less than - 40 dB between the 1490- and 1550-nm channels, and less than - 45 dB between 1310- and 1490- or 1550-nm channels.For the static performances of the integrated triplexer,its upload output power is 0.4 mW,and the download output photo-generated current is 76μA.In the small-signal measurement,the upstream -3-dB bandwidth of the triplexer is 4 GHz,while the downstream -3-dB bandwidths of both the analog and digital sections reach 1.9 GHz.
