title: Aberration properties in a chirped grating for coarse wavelength division demultiplexing.
abstract: We studied the imaging performance of a chirped grating for a demultiplexer designed for coarse wavelength division multiplexing using a wavefront aberration analysis and the ray tracing simulation. The demultiplexer was composed of a chirped grating, cylindrical lenses, and a waveguide. The best image point and the spot shape focused by the chirped grating were effectively calculated with the wavefront aberration. We applied the aberration analysis to design a waveguide to connect branched beams to photodetectors, and we confirmed the demultiplexing performance experimentally.
authors.affiliation: Materials Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., 7-1-1 Omika-cho, Hitachi, Ibaraki 319-1292, Japan. tsugita@hrl.hitachi.co.jp
authors.forename: Tatsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugita
authors.forename: Kouki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: Tomiya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Yuzo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Itoh