Passband-width broadening design for WDM filter with lattice-form interleave filter and arrayed-waveguide gratings

We successfully fabricated a high channel count and flat-top wavelength-division-multiplexing filter by integrating a waveguide-type interleave filter and two arrayed-waveguide grating on one chip. Optimizing the loss ripple of the interleave filter, we realized a 50-GHz spacing, 102-channel ports, a 1-dB passband of 30 GHz, and an insertion loss of 4 dB.