Optical Waveguide Films With Two-Layer Skirt-Type Core Structures for Beam Leakage/Scattering Reduction at Tapered Mirrors
Using the self-organized lightwave network (SOLNET) technique, we observed guided beam leakage and scattering at tapered mirrors of core end facets in optical waveguide Alms. The leakage/scattering are caused by the tunneling of guided beams into the cladding film and pattern imperfection of core ed...
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Published in | IEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 19; no. 19; pp. 1427 - 1429 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
IEEE
01.10.2007
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | Using the self-organized lightwave network (SOLNET) technique, we observed guided beam leakage and scattering at tapered mirrors of core end facets in optical waveguide Alms. The leakage/scattering are caused by the tunneling of guided beams into the cladding film and pattern imperfection of core edge corners. To reduce them, we proposed the two-layer skirt-type core structure, where a core has a layered structure of low-index (LI) part and high-index (HI) part. The LI part located between the HI part and the cladding film prevents guided beams from tunneling into the cladding film. The skirt-type shape of core end facets puts core edge corners away from the guided beam paths. The beam propagation method and the finite-difference time-domain method revealed that the leakage/scattering are reduced in the proposed core structure. Optical waveguide films with the two-layer skirt-type core structure were fabricated by the built-in mask method. Appropriate skirt lengths were found to be around core widths. Guided beams were confined into the HI part to reduce the tunneling into the cladding film. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1041-1135 1941-0174 |
DOI: | 10.1109/LPT.2007.903507 |