100-Gb/s Wavelength Division Demultiplexing Using a Photonic Crystal Four-Channel Drop Filter

Thanh Nam Nguyen (1) , Mathilde Gay (1) , Kevin Lenglé (1) , Laurent Bramerie (1) , Monique Thual (1) , Jean-Claude Simon (1) , Stefania Malaguti (2) , Gaetano Bellanca (2) , Stefano Trillo (3) , Sylvain Combrié (4) , Gaëlle Lehoucq (5) , Alfredo de Rossi (4)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 Engineering Department [Ferrara]
3 Department of Engineering
4 Laboratoire Albert Fert (ex-UMPhy Unité mixte de physique CNRS/Thales)
5 Thales Research and Technology [Palaiseau]

We report on the first demonstration of the wave- length demultiplexing of a 100-Gb/s nonreturn to zero signal to four channels at 25 Gb/s, based on resonant structures implemented in GaInP photonic crystals. The device is composed of four filters based on H0 cavities with one common input bus and four drop outputs showing a very small footprint. The measured device characteristics show good performances in terms of transmission and crosstalk with insertion losses of 11 dB on the best port. System measurements have validated its operation with < 1-dB power penalty at a bit error rate of 10− 9.

Keywords: Optical communication; photonic crystal waveguides; wavelength filtering device

Domains: Optics / Photonic

Thanh Nam Nguyen, Mathilde Gay, Kevin Lenglé, Laurent Bramerie, Monique Thual, et al.. 100-Gb/s Wavelength Division Demultiplexing Using a Photonic Crystal Four-Channel Drop Filter. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2013, 25 (9), pp.813-816. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2013.2252888⟩. ⟨hal-00817135⟩