Ball-lens-based optical add/drop multiplexers: designs and implementations

Wei Jiang; Yingzhi Sun; Feng Zhao; Ray T. Chen; Baoping Guo; James W. Horwitz; William W. Morey

doi:10.1117/12.469646

7 June 2002 Ball-lens-based optical add/drop multiplexers: designs and implementations

Wei Jiang, Yingzhi Sun, Feng Zhao, Ray T. Chen, Baoping Guo, James W. Horwitz, William W. Morey

Proceedings Volume 4653, WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications III; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469646
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

A variety of ball-lens based optical add/drop multiplexers (OADMs) are designed and implemented. Insertion losses as low as 0.5 to 0.6 dB for the reflection light-path, and 1.2 to 1.5 dB for the transmission light-path are demonstrated. The 0.5-dB passband and -30 dB stopband for 100-GHz OADM are 0.35 nm and 1.15 nm, respectively. The reflection path has an isolation 15 dB. In addition to the distinct cost advantage of ball lenses over the GRIN lenses, the ball-lens based OADMs also offer a significant simplification in packaging due to the intrinsic spherical symmetry of ball lenses. Optical designs and optics-related packaging issues are discussed in detail.

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Wei Jiang, Yingzhi Sun, Feng Zhao, Ray T. Chen, Baoping Guo, James W. Horwitz, and William W. Morey "Ball-lens-based optical add/drop multiplexers: designs and implementations", Proc. SPIE 4653, WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications III, (7 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.469646

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