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Chin. Phys. B, 2021, Vol. 30(12): 120703    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac2d23
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A 32-channel 100 GHz wavelength division multiplexer by interleaving two silicon arrayed waveguide gratings

Changjian Xie(解长健)1, Xihua Zou (邹喜华)1,†, Fang Zou(邹放)1, Lianshan Yan(闫连山)1, Wei Pan(潘炜)1, and Yong Zhang(张永)2
1 Center for Information Photonics and Communications, School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China;
2 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Abstract  A 32-channel wavelength division multiplexer with 100 GHz spacing is designed and fabricated by interleaving two silicon arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs). It has a parallel structure consisting of two silicon 16-channel AWGs with 200 GHz spacing and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with 200 GHz free spectral range. The 16 channels of one silicon AWG are interleaved with those of the other AWG in spectrum, but with an identical spacing of 200 GHz. For the composed wavelength division multiplexer, the experiment results reveal 32 wavelength channels in C-band, a wavelength spacing of 100 GHz, and a channel crosstalk lower than -15 dB.
Keywords:  wavelength division multiplexer      arrayed waveguide grating      silicon photonics      Mach-Zehnder interferometer  
Received:  07 September 2021      Revised:  28 September 2021      Accepted manuscript online:  06 October 2021
PACS:  07.60.-j (Optical instruments and equipment)  
  42.79.Sz (Optical communication systems, multiplexers, and demultiplexers?)  
  42.82.Et (Waveguides, couplers, and arrays)  
  42.25.Hz (Interference)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFB2203600).
Corresponding Authors:  Xihua Zou     E-mail:  zouxihua@swjtu.edu.cn

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Changjian Xie(解长健), Xihua Zou (邹喜华), Fang Zou(邹放), Lianshan Yan(闫连山), Wei Pan(潘炜), and Yong Zhang(张永) A 32-channel 100 GHz wavelength division multiplexer by interleaving two silicon arrayed waveguide gratings 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 120703

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