Title :
Tapping signal power on 12 μm-thick SOI optical waveguide for performance monitoring
Author :
Hsu, S.-H. ; Tsai, Y.-L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei
Abstract :
The multimode interference S-bend tap based on the mode-shifting and self-imaging property is proposed to obtain a 5.5% coupling ratio and -0.6 dB polarisation-dependent loss on 12 mum-thick silicon-on-insulator optical waveguides for performance monitoring.
Keywords :
light polarisation; monitoring; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; SOI optical waveguide; mode-shifting property; multimode interference S-bend tap; performance monitoring; polarisation-dependent loss; self-imaging property; silicon-on-insulator optical waveguides;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20093272
