Organic-inorganic hybrids for the new generation of optical networks

Author

Ferreira, R.A.S. ; Vicente, C.M.S. ; Fernandes, V. ; Macedo, A.G. ; Pecoraro, E. ; Nogueira, R.N. ; Andre, P.S. ; Marques, P. V S ; Carlos, L.D.

Author_Institution

CICECO, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Organic-inorganic hybrids were tailored as transparent monoliths and as planar waveguides deposited on borosilicate substrates by the spin coating technique. Laser direct writing process was used to create monomode Y-splitters. The Y-splitter structures were designed and optimized for a coupling ratio of 50% using a beam propagation method (BPM) software.. The potential of these optical structures based on di-ureasil hybrids to be used as optical filters operating in the C+L telecommunication windows will be evaluated.

Keywords

borosilicate glasses; laser materials processing; optical beam splitters; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; optical planar waveguides; spin coating; C+L telecommunication windows; beam propagation method; borosilicate substrates; laser direct writing process; monomode Y-splitter; optical networks; organic-inorganic hybrids; planar waveguides; spin coating technique; transparent monoliths; Coatings; Design optimization; Hybrid power systems; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Waveguide lasers; Writing; Y-splitters; hybrids; laser writing; optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185092

Filename

5185092