Abstract
We propose a novel birefringence compensating AWG design that utilizes birefringence dependence on core width. We successfully demonstrated a polarization insensitive 100 GHz-spaced 16-channel multiplexer with a polarization dependent wavelength shift of 0.01 nm.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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