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Impact of waveguide cross section on nonlinear impairments in integrated optical filters for WDM communication systems

Impact of waveguide cross section on nonlinear impairments in integrated optical filters for WDM communication systems
Impact of waveguide cross section on nonlinear impairments in integrated optical filters for WDM communication systems
Integrated optical chips enabling the realization of low-cost optical network units (ONU) is of great interest both for data centre solutions and for passive optical networks. In particular, in the frame of passive optical networks an interesting possibility is constituted by the presence, in the ONU of a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) filter [1] One of the most popular solution is based on a micro-ring resonators. The filter doesn’t introduce any relevant impairment in the downstream signal, as the optical power reaching the ONU, at the resonant wavelength, is generally so small that nonlinear effects can be generally neglected. Nevertheless, if the upstream signal, that generally has a much higher power, has to pass through the same resonator can undergo nonlinear effects like two-photon absorption (TPA), free-carriers absorption (FCA), and free-carrier dispersion (FCD) [2]. In this abstract we show the results of an experimental analysis we carried out in order to investigate the impact of optical nonlinear effects in WDM integrated micro-filters exploiting different designs (double- and triple- resonators structures, racetracks, rings, curved coupling regions, etc.) and exhibiting significantly different waveguide cross-sections (from 500 × 220 nm to 825 × 100 nm). The nonlinear behaviour evaluation has been carried out by performing two different sets of experiments. In the first one the amplified spontaneous emission emitted by an Er-doped fiber amplifier was filtered (by using a tunable filter with 5 nm band-width) and then amplified and then input by grating-assisted coupling to the filtering structures. Changes of filter transfer function were observed as a function of the input power. Conversely, in the second setup a narrowband CW-laser was used, and the behaviour of output power as a function of the input power was recorded.
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Lacava, Cosimo, Marchetti, Riccardo, Giuliani, Guido, Fournier, Maryse, Menezo, Sylvie, Messaoudene, Sylvie and Minzioni, Paolo (2015) Impact of waveguide cross section on nonlinear impairments in integrated optical filters for WDM communication systems. CLEO Europe, , Munich, Germany. 21 - 25 Jun 2015. 1 pp .

Record type: Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)

Abstract

Integrated optical chips enabling the realization of low-cost optical network units (ONU) is of great interest both for data centre solutions and for passive optical networks. In particular, in the frame of passive optical networks an interesting possibility is constituted by the presence, in the ONU of a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) filter [1] One of the most popular solution is based on a micro-ring resonators. The filter doesn’t introduce any relevant impairment in the downstream signal, as the optical power reaching the ONU, at the resonant wavelength, is generally so small that nonlinear effects can be generally neglected. Nevertheless, if the upstream signal, that generally has a much higher power, has to pass through the same resonator can undergo nonlinear effects like two-photon absorption (TPA), free-carriers absorption (FCA), and free-carrier dispersion (FCD) [2]. In this abstract we show the results of an experimental analysis we carried out in order to investigate the impact of optical nonlinear effects in WDM integrated micro-filters exploiting different designs (double- and triple- resonators structures, racetracks, rings, curved coupling regions, etc.) and exhibiting significantly different waveguide cross-sections (from 500 × 220 nm to 825 × 100 nm). The nonlinear behaviour evaluation has been carried out by performing two different sets of experiments. In the first one the amplified spontaneous emission emitted by an Er-doped fiber amplifier was filtered (by using a tunable filter with 5 nm band-width) and then amplified and then input by grating-assisted coupling to the filtering structures. Changes of filter transfer function were observed as a function of the input power. Conversely, in the second setup a narrowband CW-laser was used, and the behaviour of output power as a function of the input power was recorded.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 March 2015
Published date: June 2015
Venue - Dates: CLEO Europe, , Munich, Germany, 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378238
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ORCID for Cosimo Lacava: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9950-8642

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Author: Cosimo Lacava ORCID iD
Author: Riccardo Marchetti
Author: Guido Giuliani
Author: Maryse Fournier
Author: Sylvie Menezo
Author: Sylvie Messaoudene
Author: Paolo Minzioni

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