Title :
Highly efficient slanted grating with increased waveguide width in PLC
Author :
Tanaka, Takuya ; Abe, Makoto ; Kohtoku, Masaki ; Iwata, Toshiyuki ; Inoue, Yasuyuki
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Laboratories, NTT Corp., Kanagawa
Abstract :
The rejection level is improved from 17 to 45 dB and the back reflection suppressed from mu1 to mu13 dB in a PLC-type slanted-grating simply by increasing the waveguide width from 8 to 28 mum
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical planar waveguides; PLC; back reflection; rejection level; slanted grating; waveguide width; Backscatter; Diffraction gratings; Laboratories; Optical filters; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Programmable control; Propagation losses; Refractive index;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548177
