Zhang, H,Gleeson, M,Ye, N,Pavarelli, N,Ouyang, X,Zhao, J,Kavanagh, N,Robert, C,Yang, H,Morrissey, PE,Thomas, K,Gocalinska, A,Chen, Y,Bradley, T,Wooler, JP,Hayes, JR,Fokoua, EN,Li, Z,Alam, SU,Poletti, F,Petrovich, MN,Richardson, DJ,Kelly, B,O'Carroll, J,Phelan, R,Pelucchi, E,O'Brien, P,Peters, F,Corbett, B,Gunning, F

2015

July

Optics Letters

Dense WDM transmission at 2 mu m enabled by an arrayed waveguide grating

Validated

WOS: 37 ()

FIBER

40

3308

3311

We show, for the first time, dense WDM (8 x 20 Gbit/s) transmission at 2 mu m enabled by advanced modulation formats (4-ASK Fast-OFDM) and the development of key components, including a new arrayed waveguide grating (AWGr) at 2 mu m. The AWGr shows -12.8 +/- 1.78 dB of excess loss with an 18-dB extinction ratio and a thermal tunability of 0.108 nm/degrees C. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America

10.1364/OL.40.003308