Abstract EN:

High speed optical switching, modulation, wavelength multiplexing and filtering are becoming increasingly vital functions to realize fiber optic access networks that provide high bandwidth telecommunication services to the home or building. By using existing integrated optics microresonator technology and organic electro optic materials, large scale photonic integration of active functions is feasible. A new generation of integrated optics technology will be developed into robust densely integrated active photonic platform and eventually lead to the demonstration of low power, highly manufacturable and hence low cost multiwavelength transceivers for access networks. For the engineering of optical subsystems, two different approaches, both based on electro optic polymer microresonators vertically coupled to add drop waveguides, have been investigated and implemented. The first approach uses the hybrid integration of inorganic waveguides coupled to electro optic polymer microresonators whereas the second design associates polymer waveguides and microresonators. Using these approaches, we have designed and realized working microresonator prototypes used as mux/demux, high speed switches or modulators