Title :
Tunable transmission filters based on corrugated sidewall Bragg gratings in polymer waveguides
Author :
Zhu, Lin ; Huang, Yanyi ; Green, William M.J. ; Yariv, Amnon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
We fabricate different bandpass filters based on polymeric waveguide gratings by introducing phase shift defects and integrating with a 3 dB MMI coupler. We also use thermo-optic effects to dynamically tune the designed filter
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; band-pass filters; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical polymers; optical tuning; optical waveguide filters; thermo-optical effects; bandpass filter fabrication; corrugated sidewall Bragg gratings; filter design; multimode interferometer coupler; phase shift defects; polymer waveguide; polymeric waveguide gratings; thermo-optic effects; tunable transmission filters; Band pass filters; Bragg gratings; Costs; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical ring resonators; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201752
