Title :
Mode transformers for substrate removed waveguides
Author :
Dogru, Selim ; Ozbay, Imre ; Dagli, Nadir
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Mode transformers between very compact substrate removed waveguides and very big polymer waveguides were designed and fabricated. Transition loss between two types of waveguides was quantified and 7 dB insertion loss improvement was measured.
Keywords :
optical fabrication; optical losses; optical polymers; optical waveguides; transformers; insertion loss; mode transformers; transition loss; very big polymer waveguides; very compact substrate removed waveguides; Loss measurement; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Propagation losses; Semiconductor waveguides; Substrates; Waveguide transitions;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656390
