BPM study of wavelength dependent of new design of variable x-coupler waveguide passive device

Author

Asous, Jawdat Y. ; Shaari, Sahbudin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Electron. & Syst. Eng., Kebangsaan Malaysia Univ., Bangi, Malaysia

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

232

Lastpage

234

Abstract

A new passive x-coupler waveguide optical device is proposed and its coupling behaviour in response to different wavelengths is studied using the beam propagation method. The coupling behaviour of 0.86 μm, 1.3 μm and 1.55 μm wavelengths in this silica-based waveguide coupler is different for each wavelength. The device can behave as a WDM multiplexer, where each wavelength automatically selects its own output arm

Keywords

coupled mode analysis; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; wavelength division multiplexing; 0.86 micrometre; 1.3 micrometre; 1.55 micrometre; BPM; SiO₂; WDM multiplexer; beam propagation method; coupling behaviour; output arm selection; passive x-coupler waveguide optical device; silica-based waveguide coupler; variable x-coupler waveguide passive device design; wavelength dependence; Directional couplers; Laboratories; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Power generation; Systems engineering and theory; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Electronics, 1998. Proceedings. ICSE '98. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4971-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMELEC.1998.781186

Filename

781186