Title :
Slowing Light in Bragg Reflector Waveguide with Tilt Coupling Scheme
Author :
Hirano, Go ; Koyama, Fumio
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama
Abstract :
We investigate slowing light in Bragg reflector waveguides with a tilt coupling scheme between free-space propagation and slow guided mode. The optimization of incident angle and position of input light provides a low coupling loss of below 2 dB.
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflectors; optical waveguides; Bragg reflector waveguides; coupling loss; free-space propagation; incident angle; input light position; slow guided mode; tilt coupling; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical modulation; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Slow light; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382288
