21 January 2014 Design, simulation, evaluation, and technological verification of arrayed waveguide gratings
Dana Seyringer, Patrick Schmid, Michal Bielik, František Uherek, Jozef Chovan, Anton Kuzma
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Abstract
We present the design, simulation, evaluation, and technological verification of various low-index optical demultiplexers based on arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs). When designing such optical demultiplexers, a set of input geometrical parameters must be first calculated. They are essential to create AWG layout that will be then simulated using commercial photonics tools. However, these tools do not support or support only partially such a fundamental calculation. Therefore, a new stand-alone tool called AWG-Parameters was developed, which strongly reduces the time needed for the design. From the calculated geometrical parameters, the AWG layouts were created and simulated using three commercial photonic tools: Optiwave, (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Apollo Photonics, (Ancaster, Ontario, Canada), and R-Soft, (Pasadena, California). The designs were also technologically verified. The simulated/measured transmission characteristics were evaluated by our newly developed AWG-Analyzer tool. This tool provides calculations of AWG transmission parameters, which are also missing in commercial photonic tools. Additionally, the tool provides clear definitions of calculated transmission parameters together with their textual and graphical representations. Finally, the transmission characteristics and parameters achieved from different photonic tools were compared with each other and discussed in detail. The simulated results were also compared with the measurements. Very good agreement was achieved between theoretical (AWG-Parameters tool), simulated (commercial photonic tools), and fabricated AWG transmission parameters.
© 2014 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 0091-3286/2014/$25.00 © 2014 SPIE
Dana Seyringer, Patrick Schmid, Michal Bielik, František Uherek, Jozef Chovan, and Anton Kuzma "Design, simulation, evaluation, and technological verification of arrayed waveguide gratings," Optical Engineering 53(7), 071803 (21 January 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.7.071803
Published: 21 January 2014
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KEYWORDS
Photonics

Optical design

Waveguides

Demultiplexers

Geometrical optics

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