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- the present invention relates to a reflective diffraction grating for use in optical communication, and in particular to a planar waveguide reflective diffraction grating device with reduced polarization sensitivity and an increased free spectral range.
- a diffraction grating is an array of fine, parallel, equally spaced grooves ("rulings") on a reflecting or transparent substrate, which grooves result in diffractive and mutual interference effects that concentrate reflected or transmitted electromagnetic energy in discrete directions, called “orders, " or “spectral orders. "
- the groove dimensions and spacings are on the order of the wavelength in question. In the optical regime, in which the use of diffraction gratings is most common, there are many hundreds, or thousands, of grooves per millimeter.
- Order zero corresponds to direct transmission or specular reflection. Higher orders result in deviation of the incident beam from the direction predicted by geometric (ray) optics. With a normal angle of incidence, the angle ⁇ , the deviation of the diffracted ray from the direction predicted by geometric optics, is given by the following equation, where m is the spectral order, ⁇ is the wavelength, and d is the spacing between corresponding parts of adjacent grooves:
- a diffraction grating is dispersive, i.e. it separates the incident beam spatially into its constituent wavelength components, producing a spectrum.
- the spectral orders produced by diffraction gratings may overlap, depending on the spectral content of the incident beam and the number of grooves per unit distance on the grating. The higher the spectral order, the greater the overlap into the next-lower order. Diffraction gratings are often used in monochromators and other optical instruments.
- a planar waveguide reflective diffraction grating includes an array of facets arranged in a regular sequence.
- the performance of a simple diffraction grating is illustrated with reference to Figure 1.
- the optical beam is then angularly dispersed at an angle ⁇ 0ut depending upon wavelength and the order, in accordance with the grating equation:
- the quantity d ⁇ Nout / ⁇ is the change of the diffraction angle ⁇ Nout corresponding to a small change of wavelength ⁇ , which is known as the angular dispersion of the diffraction grating.
- the angular dispersion increases as the order m increases, as the grading pitch A decreases, and as the diffraction angle G ⁇ ut increases.
- the linear dispersion of a diffraction grating is the product of this term and the effective focal length of the system. Since light of different wavelengths ⁇ are diffracted at different angles 0N OU t . each order m is drawn out into a spectrum.
- the number of orders that can be produced by a given diffraction grating is limited by the grating pitch A, because ⁇ 0 ut cannot exceed 90°.
- the highest order is given by ⁇ /D ⁇ . Consequently, a coarse grating (with large A) produces many orders while a fine grating may produce only one or two.
- the free spectral range (FSR) of a diffraction grating is defined as the largest bandwidth in a given order which does not overlap the same bandwidth in an adjacent order.
- the prder m is important in determining the free spectral range over which continuous dispersion is obtained. For a given input-grating-output configuration, with the grating operation at a preferred diffraction order m for a preferred wavelength ⁇ , other wavelengths will follow the same path at other diffraction o rders.
- the first overlap of orders occurs when
- a blazed grating is one in which the grooves of the diffraction grating are controlled to form right triangles with a blaze angle w, as shown in Figure 1.
- the selection of the blaze angle w offers an opportunity to optimize the overall efficiency profile of the diffraction grating, particularly for a given wavelength.
- Planar waveguide diffraction based devices provide excellent performance in the near-IR (1550 nm) region for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM).
- DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- Echelle gratings which usually operate at high diffraction orders (40 to 80), high angles of incidence (approx 60°) and large grading pitches, have lead to large phase differences between interfering paths.
- An optical signal propagating through an optical fiber has an indeterminate polarization state requiring that the (de)multiplexer be substantially polarization insensitive so as to minimize polarization dependent losses.
- a reflection grating used near Littrow condition, and blazed near Littrow condition light of both polarizations reflects equally well from the reflecting facets (F in Fig. 1).
- the metalized sidewall facet S introduces a boundary condition preventing light with polarization parallel to the surface (TM) from existing near the surface.
- light of one polarization will be preferentially absorbed by the metal on the sidewall S, as compared to light of the other polarization.
- the presence of sidewall metal manifests itself in the device performance as polarization-dependent loss (PDL).
- the free spectral range of gratings is proportional to the size of the grating facets. It has long been thought that gratings with a small diffraction order could not be formed reliably by means of photolithographic etching, because low order often implies steps smaller or comparable to the photolithographic resolution. The photolithographic resolution and subsequent processing steps blur and substantially degrade the grating performance. Therefore, the field of etched gratings has for practical reasons limited itself to reasonably large diffraction orders typically in excess of order 10. Devices with orders ranging close to order 1 have long been thought to be impractical to realize.
- An object of the present invention is to overcome the shortcomings of the prior art by providing a planar waveguide reflective diffraction grating providing an increased bandwidth, due to operating at a relatively low order, with very little PDL, due to very small sidewall lengths.
- the present invention relates to a reflective diffraction grating device on a planar waveguide platform for use in demultiplexing an optical signal, comprising: an input port for launching a beam of light comprising a plurality of wavelength channels, defined by an average wavelength, at a diffraction grating incident angle; a reflective diffraction grating for dispersing the wavelength channels at various angles according to wavelength, the reflective diffraction grating having a plurality of reflective walls defined by a facet length, and a plurality of sidewalls defined by a sidewall length; and a plurality of output ports positioned to capture the wavelength channels; wherein an aspect ratio, defined by the facet length divided by the sidewall length, is greater than 3.
- a reflective diffraction grating device on a planar waveguide platform for use in multiplexing or demultiplexing optical channels defined by an average wavelength, comprising: a reflective diffraction grating, which includes a plurality of reflective walls defined by a facet length; and a plurality of non-reflective sidewalls defined by a sidewall length; an input port for launching a beam of light comprising the optical channels at the diffraction grating at an incident angle; a first output port for outputting one of the optical channels; and a second output port for outputting another of the optical channels; wherein the facet length and the incident angle are selected to ensure that the grating provides diffraction in an order with an absolute value of 7 or less.
- a reflective diffraction grating device on a planar waveguide platform for use in demultiplexing an optical signal, comprising: an input port for launching a beam of light comprising a plurality of wavelength channels, defined by an average wavelength, at a diffraction grating incident angle; a reflective diffraction grating for dispersing the wavelength channels at various angles according to wavelength, the reflective diffraction grating having a plurality of reflective walls defined by a facet length, and a plurality of sidewalls defined by a sidewall length; and a plurality of output ports positioned to capture the wavelength channels; wherein the sidewall length is less than or equal to twice the average wavelength.
- Figure 1 illustrates a conventional reflective diffraction grating
- Figure 2 illustrates a planar waveguide reflective diffraction grating according to the present invention
- Figure 3 illustrates an optical device incorporating the planar waveguide reflective diffraction grating according to the present invention.
- Equation (1) simplifies to m ⁇ ⁇ 2Asm ⁇ in (7)
- Telecommunications networks have evolved from DWDM to CWDM and FTTH networks.
- the latter two network architectures have channels spanning large wavelength ranges, from ⁇ 1250 n to ⁇ 1630 nm. These wide ranges cannot be served by a high- diffraction order device, and often require orders as low as 1.
- Practitioners of the prior art have not been aware of, or taken advantage of equation (8). At low diffraction orders m and operating angles ⁇ j n and ⁇ ou. of 45° to 65° the resulting facet size F for a planar waveguide diffraction grating would be too small to be practically manufacturable.
- Existing planar waveguide diffraction based devices include AWGs and echelle gratings.
- the present invention recognizes the importance of equation (8), in particular the fact that it is possible to increase the grating facet aspect ratio F/S through angular dependence of the denominator. As the diffraction angle is reduced, the facet size increases linearly with tan ⁇ i n . Additionally, inventors recognize that the increase of the facet aspect ratio F/S yields devices with improved polarization dependent loss and larger free spectral range.
- the present invention encompasses all planar waveguide diffraction grating designs with the ratio of reflecting to non-reflecting facets (or sidewalls) of at least 3.
- the amount of PDL is strongly dependent on the aspect ratio F/S and the length of the non-reflecting facet S.
- Conventional echelle designs have an aspect ratio of ⁇ 1, and are strongly subjected to sidewall dependent PDL; however, for F/S in excess of 3, the non- reflecting facets make substantially smaller contribution to the PDL.
- F/S it is possible to design manufacturable facets with the non-reflecting grating facet sizes S at or smaller than the wavelength of the reflected light, e.g. S ⁇ 3000nm, preferably ⁇ 2500nm, even more preferably ⁇ 2000nm, and ultimately preferably ⁇ 1550nm.
- the interaction length of light with the metallized sidewall is so small that PDL- free operation of the device becomes possible.
- the present inventors recognize this fact and can increase the aspect ratio, i.e. decrease S/F, shown in equation (9) without risk of affecting the pitch.
- the fidelity of the grating reproduction is limited not by photolithography but by the accuracy of the features on the mask itself. This limit is several orders of magnitude (100-fold) smaller than the photolithographic resolution.
- a concave reflective diffraction grating 10 is formed at an edge of a slab waveguide 11 provided in chip 12.
- An input port is defined by an end of a waveguide 13, which extends from an edge of the chip 12 to the slab waveguide 11 for transmitting an input wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal, comprising a plurality of wavelength channels ( ⁇ l3 ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 ...), thereto.
- the diffraction grating 10, as defined above with reference to Figure 2 has an aspect ratio (F/S) greater than 5, and a sidewall length S less than or equal to the average wavelength of the wavelength channels ( ⁇ i, ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 3 ).
- the input waveguide 13 is positioned to ensure that the incident angle ⁇ j n is less than 30°. and the grating pitch A is selected to ensure that the grating 10 provides diffraction in an order of 5 or less.
- the diffraction grating 10 disperses the input signal into constituent wavelengths and focuses each wavelength channel on a separate output port in the form of an output waveguide 15, the ends of which are disposed along a focal line 16 of the grating 10 defined by a Rowland circle, for transmission back to the edge of the chip 12.
- the illustrated device could also be used to multiplex several wavelength channels, input the waveguides 15, into a single output signal transmitted out to the edge of the chip 12 via the input waveguide 13.
- the input and output ports represent positions on the slab waveguide 11 at which light can be launched or captured; however, the ports can be optically coupled with other transmitting devices or simply blocked off.
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