Optical add-drop multiplexers based on autocloned photonic crystals |
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| Authors: | Shirane M Gomyo A Miura K Ohtera Y Yamada H Kawakami S |
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| Affiliation: | Fundamental & Environ. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Tsukuba, Japan; |
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| Abstract: | We describe and demonstrate the operation of optical add-drop multiplexers (OADMs) based on photonic crystal (PC) structures fabricated by autocloning technology. In these OADMs, a three-dimensional PC structure was utilized as a Bragg reflector. We obtained a drop bandwidth of 2 nm at a wavelength of 1560 nm. We also demonstrate for the first time add and drop operations of the PC-based OADMs in a wavelength-division multiplexing optical transmission system. |
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