Integrated switches for reconfigurable optical add-drop modules

Anthony J. Ticknor; Kenneth G. Purchase

doi:10.1117/12.382893

21 April 2000 Integrated switches for reconfigurable optical add-drop modules

Anthony J. Ticknor, Kenneth G. Purchase

Proceedings Volume 3949, WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382893
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Research and engineering are being done to incorporate polymer waveguide elements within commercial-grade silica planar-lightwave circuits to enable robust thermo-optic switches and programmable attenuators as integrable components. One of the key targets for this phase of the technology is a fully-integrated, fully-reconfigurable optical add-drop module, wherein the optical dense wavelength-division multiplexers are silica arrayed- waveguide gratings with polymer thermo-optic switches and add-drop waveguide channels interposed on the same substrate for a monolithic module.

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Anthony J. Ticknor and Kenneth G. Purchase "Integrated switches for reconfigurable optical add-drop modules", Proc. SPIE 3949, WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications, (21 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382893

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