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Waveguide Bragg Grating for Fault Localization in PON
HU Jin, LIU Xu, ZHU Songlin, ZHUANG Yudi, WU Yuejun, XIA Xiang, HE Zuyuan
ZTE Communications    2024, 22 (2): 94-98.   DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202402012
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Femtosecond laser direct inscription is a technique especially useful for prototyping purposes due to its distinctive advantages such as high fabrication accuracy, true 3D processing flexibility, and no need for mold or photomask. In this paper, we demonstrate the design and fabrication of a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) power splitter encoded with waveguide Bragg gratings (WBG) using a femtosecond laser inscription technique for passive optical network (PON) fault localization application. Both the reflected wavelengths and intervals of WBGs can be conveniently tuned. In the experiment, we succeeded in directly inscribing WBGs in 1×4 PLC splitter chips with a wavelength interval of about 4 nm and an adjustable reflectivity of up to 70% in the C-band. The proposed method is suitable for the prototyping of a PLC splitter encoded with WBG for PON fault localization applications.

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