Graded effective index planar polymer waveguides

Author

Boertjes, David W. ; McMullin, James N. ; Keyworth, Barrie P.

Author_Institution

TRLabs., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

14

Issue

12

fYear

1996

fDate

12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2714

Lastpage

2718

Abstract

A dispensed polymer waveguide with a parabolic surface is shown to exhibit graded index waveguide behavior for each of the discrete vertical modes of the polymer layer due to the lateral variation of the effective indexes of the modes. Air-clad waveguide losses are less than 0.7 dB/cm. Beam propagation simulations show excellent agreement with recorded images of oscillating guided beams. These graded effective index waveguides may be useful in high-speed, large scale optical interconnections and coarse wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) integrated optics applications

Keywords

gradient index optics; optical images; optical interconnections; optical planar waveguides; optical polymers; refractive index; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM integrated optics applications; air-clad waveguide losses; beam propagation simulations; coarse wavelength division multiplexing; discrete vertical modes; dispensed polymer waveguide; effective indexes; graded effective index planar polymer waveguides; graded effective index waveguides; graded index waveguide behavior; high-speed large scale optical interconnections; lateral variation; oscillating guided beams; parabolic surface; polymer layer; recorded images; Large scale integration; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical propagation; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Polymers; Surface waves; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.545790

Filename

545790