Design considerations in optical add/drop multiplexers based on grating-assisted null couplers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 92-104

  Riziotis, Christos ^a   Zervas, Mikhail N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Southampton Photonics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gratings; Null couplers; Optical add drop multiplexers (OADMs); Tilted gratings; Wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

NULL COUPLERS; TILTED GRATINGS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0035046777     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.914490     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Optical wavelength add-drop multiplexer in installed submarine WDM network
2. New design concept for a narrowband wavelength-selective optical tap and combiner
3. Integrated-optical Mach-Zehnder add-drop filter fabricated by a single UV-induced grating exposure
4. High-return-loss narrow-band all-fiber bandpass Bragg transmission filter
5. Laser-trimmed four-port bandpass filter fabricated in single-mode photosensitive Ge-doped planar waveguide
6. An all-fiber dense-wavelength-division multiplexer/demultiplexer using photoimprinted Bragg gratings
7. Low-loss planar lightwave circuit OADM with high isolation and no polarization dependence
8. Grating frustrated coupler: A novel channel-dropping filter in single-mode optical fiber
9. Optical add-drop multiplexer based on UV written Bragg gratings in a fused 100% coupler
10. A simplified approach to Bragg grating based Michelson and the in-coupler Bragg grating add-drop multiplexers
11. Demonstration of a narrowband Bragg-reflection filter in a single-mode fiber directional coupler
12. Contradirectional frequency-selective couplers for guided wave optics
13. Novel add-drop filters for wavelength-division multiplexing optical fiber systems using a Bragg grating assisted mismatched coupler
14. All fiber zero insertion loss add drop filter for WDM
15. Planar waveguide add/drop filter employing a mode-converting grating in an adiabatic coupler
16. Optical add-drop multiplexer based on asymmetric Bragg coupler
17. Four-port fiber frequency shifter with a null taper coupler
18. 2 × 2 fused fiber null couplers with asymmetric waist cross sections for polarization independent (<0.01 dB) switching
19. Optimization of OADM's based on grating assisted mode conversion in null couplers
20. Mode conversion in planar-dielectric separating waveguides
21. Coupled mode analysis of dielectric planar branching waveguides
22. Tapered velocity couplers for integrated optics: Design
23. Shaping the digital switch
24. Shaping the digital optical switch using evolution strategies and BPM
25. Filter synthesis for coupled waveguides
26. Direct writing of planar waveguide power splitters and directional couplers using a focused ultraviolet laser beam
27. 3 waveguide bends at λ = 1.3 μm
28. Spectral characteristics of coupled-waveguide Bragg-reflection tunable optical filter
29. Fiber grating spectra
30. Complex grating structures with uniform phase masks based on the moving fiber-scanning technique
31. Cladding-mode coupling characteristics of Bragg gratings in depressed-cladding fiber
32. Tilted fiber phase gratings
33. An efficient inverse scattering algorithm for the design of nonuniform fiber Bragg gratings