Low-Crosstalk 1 × 40 100 GHz Spacing Cascaded Planar Echelle Gratings for Mux/Demux on 3-μm Silicon Platform

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A 40-channels 100 GHz spaced (de-)multiplexer (Demux/Mux) based on cascaded planar Echelle gratings (PEGs) with low crosstalk and insertion loss is designed and fabricated on 3-μm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform. The low crosstalk level 40-channels Demux/Mux is effectively achieved by cascading one 1 × 8 100 GHz spacing cyclic PEG with 800 GHz free spectral range (FSR) and eight 1 × 5 800 GHz spacing PEGs. The cascaded PEGs provide double filtering to the noise floor thus decreasing the crosstalk. The low-crosstalk and compact 1 × 40 100 GHz spacing PEG can be employed as Demux and Mux in large-scale photonic integrated circuit (PIC) for large-channel all-optical on-chip system, such as integrated wavelength selective switches (WSSs). The experimental results show that the 1 × 40 cascaded PEG owns the insertion losses ranging from 2.0 dB to 5.0 dB, low crosstalk2. For data transmission experiments, error-free operation at 10−9BER are measured with power penalties31−1 data, respectively.