Title :
Design and fabrication of silica-based integrated-optic 1*128 power splitter
Author :
Takahashi, Hiroki ; Ohmori, Yutaka ; Kawachi, M.
Author_Institution :
NTT Opto. Electron. Labs., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
A 1*128 optical power splitter is fabricated by integrating 127 Y-branch waveguide elements on a 3 inch silicon wafer using silica waveguide technology. The average measured excess loss of this splitter is 3.2 dB including fibre-waveguide coupling loss.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical losses; optical waveguides; 1*128 configuration; 3.2 dB; Ge doped silica; Si wafer; SiO 2-GeO 2; Y-branch waveguide elements; excess loss; fabrication; fibre-waveguide coupling loss; integrated-optic; optical power splitter; silica waveguide technology;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19911320
