Macroscopic and Microscopic Thermal Management of a Planar Integrated Optical Device

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn 86, Issue , 2003, Pages 175-176

  Spott, T ^a   Schumacher, A ^a   Dieckroeger, J ^a   Krabe, D ^a   Schenk, W ^a   Schneider, H ^a   Ramminger, S ^a   Baumann, I ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL; ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; ETCHING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS (AWG); PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS (PLC); THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; OPTICAL NETWORK UNITS; THERMAL CROSSTALK; THERMOOPTICAL SWITCH;

EID: 1642487209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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2. C. R. Doerr et al., "An automatic 40-wayelength channelized equalizer," IEEE Photonics Technol.. Lett, 2, 9, 1995-7 (2000).
3. C. R. Doerr et al., "Multichannel integrated tunable dispersion compensator employing a thermooptic lens", OFC 2002 Postdeadline Paper FA6-1 (2002)
4. A. B. Schumacher et al.,"Fully reconfigurable optical add-/drop multiplexer with integrated variable optical attenuator and power monitors", submitted to OFC 2003.
5. The AWG region needs to be thermally isolated from the housing to ensure low-power operation at low environmental temperatures. Otherwise, excessive heating power would be required to stabilize the AWG temperature at low ambient temperature.