Abstract
Optical waveguide beam splitters (combiners) and waveguide switches are essential for building large-scale optical integrated circuit. The mechanism proposed in the past for waveguide beam splitter is beam splitting by mode conversion, such as the widely used Y-branch optical waveguides. To increase the density of optical integration and allow sophisticated optical wiring in chip, practical designs require the use of sharp, e.g. 90°, bends. This paper reports on an experimental demonstration of a waveguide beam splitter based on optical tunneling.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 832-833 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
| Volume | 2 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 2003 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings - TUCSON, AZ, United States Duration: Oct 26 2003 → Oct 30 2003 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering