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100-Channel Arrayed Waveguide Grating Based on Thin Film Lithium Niobate on Insulator (LNOI)
Document Type
Periodical
Source
Journal of Lightwave Technology J. Lightwave Technol. Lightwave Technology, Journal of. 42(13):4519-4524 Jul, 2024
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Waveguide transitions
Lithium niobate
Slabs
Phased arrays
Optical crosstalk
Arrayed waveguide grating
demultiplexing
multiplexing
thin film lithium niobate on insulator
Language
ISSN
0733-8724
1558-2213
Abstract
Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is one of the primary devices of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology with comprehensive advantages of stable performance, high resolution, and a large number of channels. In this work, we demonstrated a low-loss AWG with 100 output channels and a channel spacing of 50 pm based on a z-cut thin-film lithium niobate platform. The length increment of adjacent arrayed waveguides and the etching depth have been optimized to reduce random phase errors. As far as we know, the demonstrated AWG has the largest number of output channels and the smallest channel spacing on the thin-film LiNbO 3 platform.