Title :
Low loss and low crosstalk waveguide crossings with small angles designed by wavefront matching method
Author :
Saida, Takashi ; Sakamaki, Youhei ; Tamura, Munehisa ; Hashimoto, Toshikazu ; Takahashi, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
We report experimental results for small-angle waveguide crossings designed with our recently proposed wavefront matching method. We successfully obtained lower loss and crosstalk values than conventional straight waveguide crossings.
Keywords :
optical crosstalk; optical design techniques; optical losses; optical planar waveguides; low crosstalk waveguide crossings; low loss waveguide crossings; planar lightwave circuits; small-angle waveguide crossings; wavefront matching method; waveguide crossing design;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
