Title :
Design and Fabrication of Widely Tunable Polymer Waveguide Coupled-Ring Reflector
Author :
Lee, Taehyung ; Lee, Donghyun ; Park, Joonoh ; Hwang, Woonglin ; Chung, Youngchul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comm. Eng., Kwangwoon Univ., Seoul
Abstract :
A widely tunable coupled-ring reflector (CRR) based on planar polymer waveguide is fabricated and the characteristics are measured. The ring radii of the coupled rings are slightly different to achieve wide tuning of a few tens nm using a low current level as small as a few tens mA.
Keywords :
optical planar waveguides; optical tuning; coupled-ring reflector; planar polymer waveguide; ring radii; wide tuning; Coupling circuits; Diode lasers; Laser tuning; Optical device fabrication; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim, 2007. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1173-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1174-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2007.4391502
