Title :
Reducing radiation loss of tilts in dielectric optical waveguides
Author_Institution :
University of Wuppertal, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wuppertal, West Germany
Abstract :
It is proposed to reduce the radiation loss of an optical wave-guide tilt by increasing the refractive index on the inner side, or by decreasing it on the outer side of the tilt By microwave model experiments it is shown that the method proposed is effective.
Keywords :
integrated optics; losses; optical waveguides; dielectric optical waveguides; integrated optics; microwave model experiments; monomode waveguides; optical waveguide tilt; radiation loss reduction; waveguide kinks;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19810259
