Recent progress in silica-based planar lightwave circuits on silicon

Author

Kawachi, M.

Author_Institution

NTT Opto-Electron. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

143

Issue

5

fYear

1996

fDate

10/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

262

Abstract

Low-loss integrated silica waveguides on silicon allow the efficient interaction of guided-wave optical signals and are used to form a variety of planar lightwave circuits for optical branching, switching and filtering. Silica waveguides can also be used as platforms (motherboards) for hybrid optoelectronic (OE) integration. The paper reviews recent progress on silica waveguide technologies which are currently penetrating the passive component market for optical networks and providing innovative ways of packaging OE components

Keywords

electro-optical filters; electro-optical switches; integrated circuit packaging; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical losses; optical planar waveguides; reviews; silicon; silicon compounds; OE component packaging; Si; SiO₂-Si; guided-wave optical signals; hybrid optoelectronic integration; low-loss integrated silica waveguides; motherboards; optical branching; optical filtering; optical networks; optical switching; passive component market; platforms; reviews; silica waveguide technologies; silica waveguides; silica-based planar lightwave circuits; silicon;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings -

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-2433

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-opt:19960493

Filename

553419