Wavelength division device, wavelength division multiplexing system and wavelength multiplexing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017168238-A1
Application number	US-201615347679-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 9, 2016
Priority date	Dec 10, 2015
Publication date	Jun 15, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is a wavelength division device. The wavelength division device includes input arrayed waveguides, an input circular grating coupler connected to one ends of the input arrayed waveguides and configured to refract first light having a plurality of wavelengths and output the refracted first light to each of the one ends of the input arrayed waveguides as plurality of second light, and an output star coupler connected to the other ends of the input arrayed waveguides and configured to receive the plurality of second light from the other ends of the input arrayed waveguides and output optical signals that are divided for each wavelength. The input circular grating coupler includes a plurality of circular gratings.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A wavelength division device comprising:
input arrayed waveguides; an input circular grating coupler connected to one ends of the input arrayed waveguides and configured to refract first light having a plurality of wavelengths and output the refracted first light to each of the one ends of the input arrayed waveguides as plurality of second light; and an output star coupler connected to other ends of the input arrayed waveguides and configured to receive the plurality of second light from the other ends of the input arrayed waveguides and output optical signals that are divided for each wavelength, wherein the input circular grating coupler comprises a plurality of circular gratings.

2 . The wavelength division device of claim 1 , wherein the input circular grating coupler refracts the first light to a plane perpendicular to an incident path to output the plurality of second light.

3 . The wavelength division device of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of second light has an intensity in which an intensity of the first light is equally distributed.

4 . The wavelength division device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of circular gratings have the same center and radii that gradually increase at a predetermined distance.

5 . The wavelength division device of claim 1 , wherein the outermost circular grating of the plurality of circular gratings comprises at least two terminals.

6 . The wavelength division device of claim 5 , wherein the at least two terminals of the outermost circular grating are connected to the one ends of the input arrayed waveguides.

7 . The wavelength division device of claim 6 , further comprising a waveguide material disposed from the outermost circular grating to a first region in each of regions between the input arrayed waveguides.

8 . The wavelength division device of claim 7 , wherein the uppermost portion of the waveguide material is disposed lower than the uppermost portion of each of the input arrayed waveguides.

9 . The wavelength division device of claim 1 , wherein the output star coupler outputs the optical signals that are divided for each wavelength by using an optical path difference between the plurality of second light.

10 . A wavelength division multiplexing system comprising:
a wavelength division device to receive first multi-wavelength light having a plurality of wavelengths and output optical signals that are divided for each wavelength; a photonic component to receive the optical signals that are divided for each wavelength and output optically processed optical signals; and a wavelength coupling device to receive the optically processed optical signals and output second multi-wavelength light having a plurality of wavelengths, wherein the wavelength division device comprises: input arrayed waveguides; an input circular grating coupler connected to one ends of the input arrayed waveguides and configured to refract first light having a plurality of wavelengths and output the refracted first light to each of the one ends of the input arrayed waveguides as plurality of second light; and an output star coupler connected to the other ends of the input arrayed waveguides and configured to receive the plurality of second light from the other ends of the input arrayed waveguides and output optical signals that are divided for each wavelength, wherein the input circular grating coupler comprises a plurality of circular gratings.

11 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 10 , wherein the wavelength coupling device comprises:
output arrayed waveguides; and an output circular grating coupler coupled to the optically processed optical signals to output the second multi-wavelength light having the plurality of wavelengths, wherein the output circular grating coupler comprises a plurality of second circular gratings.

12 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of second circular gratings have the same center and radii that gradually increase at a predetermined distance.

13 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of second circular gratings have the same center and radii that gradually increase at a gradually decreasing distance.

14 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 11 , wherein the outermost circular grating of the plurality of second circular gratings comprises as many terminals as the number of optical signals that are divided for each wavelength, and the optically processed optical signals are respectively received to the terminals.

15 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 14 , wherein the output circular grating coupler is coupled to the optically processed optical signals received through the terminals connected to the outermost circular grating to output the second multi-wavelength light.

16 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 14 , wherein the output circular grating coupler further comprises a distributed bragg reflector provided in a peripheral region except for the terminals of the outermost circular grating.

17 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 11 , wherein the output circular grating coupler has a circular shape, and spaces within the circular shape are divided into regions corresponding to the optical signals that are divided for each wavelength with respect to the same center, and
each of the regions comprises gratings having arc shapes with radii that gradually increase with respect to the center.

18 . The wavelength division multiplexing system of claim 10 , wherein the wavelength division device, the photonic component, and the wavelength coupling device are disposed on the same plane, and
at least one of the first multi-wavelength light or the second multi-wavelength light is received from or outputted to the other plane that is parallel to the same plane.

19 . A wavelength multiplexing system comprising:
an input waveguide structure comprising a plurality of optical channels and configured to optically couple first optical signals received from the plurality of optical channels to each other, thereby outputting a second optical signal; and a three-dimensionally stacked layer structure configured to receive the second optical signal, wherein the layer structure comprises a plurality of layers, and each of the plurality of layers comprises a wavelength division device, and the wavelength division device comprises an input circular grating coupler having wavelength responsibility according to each of the plurality of layers and refracts an optical signal, which is optically and selectively coupled to the circular grating coupler according to the wavelength responsibility, of the second optical signal to output a plurality of third optical signals.

20 . The wavelength multiplexing system of claim 19 , wherein the wavelength division device further comprises:
input arrayed waveguides connected to the input circular grating coupler; and an output star coupler configured to receive the third optical signals from the input arrayed waveguides and output fourth optical signals according to an optical path difference between the received third optical signals.

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Park Jaegyu
• Kwack Myungjoon
• Kim Gyungock
• Joo Jiho

Classifications

• G02B6/34

  utilising prism or grating {(G02B6/293 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G02B6/12019

  characterised by the optical interconnection to or from the AWG devices, e.g. integration or coupling with lasers or photodiodes (coupling integrated waveguide to fibre G02B6/30, to optoelectronic element G02B6/42; monolithic integration of integrated waveguides with other optical elements G02B6/12004) · CPC title

• G02B6/30

  for use between fibre and thin-film device · CPC title

• G02B6/12021 Primary

  Comprising cascaded AWG devices; AWG multipass configuration; Plural AWG devices integrated on a single chip · CPC title

• G02B6/12014

  characterised by the wavefront splitting or combining section, e.g. grooves or optical elements in a slab waveguide · CPC title