Title :
Grating-assisted coupling of light between semiconductor and glass waveguides
Author :
Sun, Nai-Hsiang ; Butler, Jerome K. ; Evans, Gary A. ; Pang, Lily ; Congdon, Phil
Author_Institution :
Kaohsiung Polytech. Inst., Taiwan
Abstract :
Grating-assisted directional couplers (GADC) are designed to couple the power between two waveguides with highly dissimilar effective indices. The GADC structure is used for wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems to simplify coupling to optical fibers. In this paper, we use the Floquet Bloch theory to analyze this GADC structure because it provides rigorous solutions without introducing ad hoc assumptions
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical communication equipment; optical directional couplers; optical glass; optical waveguide theory; optical waveguides; wavelength division multiplexing; Floquet Bloch theory; GADC structure; WDM; glass waveguides; grating-assisted light coupling; highly dissimilar effective indices; optical fiber coupling; rigorous solutions; semiconductor waveguides; wavelength division multiplexed; Directional couplers; Fiber lasers; Glass; Gratings; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor waveguides; Sun; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3895-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1997.645503
