Design of buried type polymer based waveguide optical directional coupler

Author

Supa, Abu Sahmah Mohd ; Mohammad, Abu Bakar ; Kassim, Norazan Mohd

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Darul Malaysia, Malaysia

fYear

2002

fDate

19-21 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

401

Abstract

A design of buried square core (BSC) waveguide structure for a polymer based directional coupler at third telecommunication window is presented. The optimization of the waveguide dimension, the waveguide spacing, the coupling length and the thickness of the claddings have been determined. The device length of BSC S-bend waveguide at the input and output ports to form a directional coupler has been studied as a function of radius of curvature and the offset. With the index contrast of 0.0165 between the core and the cladding, the crosstalk of <-26 dB for TE polarization can be achieved.

Keywords

optical communication; optical directional couplers; optical polymers; optical waveguides; TE polarization; buried square core design; buried type polymer; claddings; input ports; output ports; telecommunication window; waveguide optical directional coupler; Directional couplers; Optical coupling; Optical crosstalk; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Electronics, 2002. Proceedings. ICSE 2002. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7578-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMELEC.2002.1217851

Filename

1217851