Title :
Acrylic-based 1×2 Y-Branch POF coupler with high index contrast waveguide taper
Author :
Ehsan, Abang Annuar ; Rahman, M. K. Abd
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microengineering & Nanoelectron. (IMEN), Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
Abstract :
An acrylic-based 1×2 Y-Branch POF coupler consist of input POF waveguide, a middle high index contrast waveguide taper and output POF waveguides has been developed and modeled using non-sequential ray tracing. The waveguide taper provide an all passive alignment with insertion loss of 4.68 dB and coupling ratio of 50:50.
Keywords :
optical fibre couplers; optical polymers; optical waveguides; ray tracing; acrylic-based Y-branch POF coupler; coupling ratio; high index contrast waveguide taper; insertion loss; nonsequential ray tracing; Couplers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Plastics; Ray tracing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7111-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACP.2010.5682759
