Polarization-Diversified DWDM Receiver on Silicon Free of Polarization-dependentWavelength Shift

04 March 2012

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We demonstrate a monolithically integrated, polarization-diversified silicon receiver chip with 10 wavelength channels at 100-GHz spacing. It has 1.8 dB polarization dependent loss and zero polarization-dependent wavelength shift. 10 Gbps operation is demonstrated for all channels.