• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 12, Issue 9, 092302 (2014)
Liangliang Wang, Junming An, Jiashun Zhang, Yuanda Wu, Jianguang Li, Hongjie Wang, Yue Wang, Pan Pan, Fei Zhong, Qiang Zha, Xiaojie Yin, Xiongwei Hu, and Degang Zhao
DOI: 10.3788/col201412.092302 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Liangliang Wang, Junming An, Jiashun Zhang, Yuanda Wu, Jianguang Li, Hongjie Wang, Yue Wang, Pan Pan, Fei Zhong, Qiang Zha, Xiaojie Yin, Xiongwei Hu, Degang Zhao. Design and fabrication of optical power splitters with large port count[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(9): 092302 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

We design and fabricate compact, low loss, and high port-count optical power splitters of 1 × 128 and2 × 128 using silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology on 6 inch quartz substrate. PLC tech-nology is mainly based on plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, photolithography, and etching. The measured results show that the insertion loss, uniformity, and wavelength-dependent loss of 1 × 128 and 2 × 128 optical power splitters are less than 23, 1.43, and 0.92 dB and 23.3, 1.8, and 1.3 dB, respectively, in the wavelength range from 1.26 to 1.65 mm. The polarization-dependent losses are less than 0.16 and 0.2 dB, respectively, in the wavelengths of 1.31, 1.49, and 1.55 mm.
Liangliang Wang, Junming An, Jiashun Zhang, Yuanda Wu, Jianguang Li, Hongjie Wang, Yue Wang, Pan Pan, Fei Zhong, Qiang Zha, Xiaojie Yin, Xiongwei Hu, Degang Zhao. Design and fabrication of optical power splitters with large port count[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(9): 092302
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