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An Efficient Design Technique for the Flattened Transfer Function of Arrayed Waveguide Grating

  • Jung Jae-Hoon (School of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Moon Hyung-Myung (Photonics Planar Integration technology Inc) ;
  • Kwak Seung-Chan (Photonics Planar Integration technology Inc)
  • Received : 2005.12.08
  • Published : 2006.03.01
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Abstract

This paper describes an efficient optimal design method for an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) with flattened transfer function. The objective function is the norm of the difference between calculated and target spectra. To analyze the AWG transfer function, the Fresnel-Kirchhof diffraction formula was employed and the design variable was optical path difference of each array waveguide. The (1+1) Evolution Strategy was applied to an eight-channel coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) AWG as the optimization tool. The optimized transfer function will considerably improve the system performance.

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