“…2021, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 16 crosstalk between channels, so the temperature of the device needs to be stabilized when applied to DWDM systems. However, for active temperature stabilization, the use of cooling devices such as heaters or Peltier Coolers requires power consumption and electronic control circuits, and issues such as price, device size, and reliability limit the widespread use of DWDM systems [17,18]. This study performed reliability and accelerated life tests on a 96-channel (50 GHzspacing) athermal AWG module fabricated by installing a temperature compensation board on the back of a silicon substrate.…”