• DocumentCode
    974987
  • Title

    Cylindrical concave diffraction grating utilising thin silicon chip

  • Author

    Fujii, Yuka ; Minowa, J.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Yokosuka Electrical Communication Laboratory, Yokosuka, Japan
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    24
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    934
  • Lastpage
    936
  • Abstract
    A unique manufacturing method for concave diffraction gratings is proposed. Also, a cylindrical concave diffraction grating was manufactured with a multimode slab waveguide. A silicon plane diffraction grating was bent cylindrically in this method. The efficiency of the concave diffraction grating was 82% at a 1.3 ¿m wavelength. The efficiency was about the same as that of the plane diffraction grating.
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; frequency division multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; silicon; 1.3 micron wavelength; Si plane diffraction grating; cylindrical concave diffraction grating; dielectric waveguides; multimode slab waveguide; multiplexes; optical transmission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19810651
  • Filename
    4246134