Fabrication and characterization of polyethylene terephatate optical waveguides

In this paper, the fabrication and characterization of polyethylene terephatate (PET) thin film integrated optical waveguide is presented. Dip-coating technique has been used to fabricate the optical waveguide using PET. Various waveguide properties, such as mode effective refractive index, optical loss, dispersion and waveguide thickness as a function of temperature of waveguides have been reported. The optical loss are found to be <1 dB cm^–1.     

High-index and low loss polyethylene terephatate optical waveguides

In this paper, the fabrication and characterization of a high-index low loss polyethylene terephatate (PET) optical waveguide is presented. Dip-coating technique has been used to fabricate the optical waveguide using PET. Various waveguide properties, such as mode effective refractive index, optical loss, dispersion and waveguide thickness as a function of temperature of waveguides and substrates have been reported. Optical losses of as low as 0.7 dB cm^–1 waveguides can be obtained if the formation temperature can be controlled between 30 and 35°C. In addition, we suggested that it is a suitable material for optoelectronic waveguide devices.     

分层复合材料光波导的非线性二次增强效应

通过对分层复合材料光波导ＴＭ模等效介电系数的分析，清楚地预言了无限扩展分层复合材料结构中的非线性增强将因光波导的边界作用而引起进一步的加强。     

Micro‐ and submicrometric waveguiding structures in optical crystals produced by ion beams for photonic applications

Energetic ion beams with diverse energies, species and beam dimensions have been extensively utilized to modify the properties of materials to achieve versatile applications in many aspects of industry, agriculture and scientific research. In optics, the ion‐beam technology has been applied to fabricate various micro‐ and submicrometric guiding structures on a wide range of optical crystals through the efficient modulation of the refractive indices or structuring of the surface, realizing various applications in many branches of photonics. The ion‐beam fabricated optical waveguides and other photonic structures have shown good guiding performance as well as properties related to the materials, suggesting promising potential for many aspects of photonics. This paper gives the state‐of‐the‐art review of fabrication, characterization and application on the ion‐beam‐processed micro‐ and submicrometric photonic structures by highlighting the most recent research progress. A brief prospect is presented by focusing on a few potential spotlights.     

A novel quasi-phase-matching frequency doubling technique

A new quasi-phase-matching technique for efficient second-harmonic generation is reported. It is based on the spatial periodic modulation of the light intensity along the propagation direction, rather than the conventional spatial periodic modulation of the nonlinear optical coefficients. It can be realized by using a novel dual-channel waveguide frequency doubler structure for the desired light intensity distribution. This dual-channel waveguide device has major advantages including very small beam size, high light intensity within long nonlinear-waveguide interaction length, highly efficient second-harmonic generation, ease in fabrication of the nonlinear channel waveguides without any spatially periodic poling, and low waveguide propagation losses. The new quasi-phase-matching technique can also be applied to third-harmonic generation and other nonlinear optics processes.     

光束传播法分析硅交叉波导光开关的光学效应

运用光束传播法对硅交叉波导全内反射光开关中的光学效应进行了详细分析。结果表明：１）光学表面衰减波和泄漏波所引发的光遂道效应对开关特性有重要影响；２）反射端功率的相对大小于与反射区界面位置密切相关，其起因是古斯－汉欣位移；３）合理考虑这些因素的影响可以大大降低器件对折射率变化的要求。     

加入增益介质的表面等离子体激元耦合共振波导传输特性理论研究

将增益介质加入金属环构成的表面等离子体激元耦合共振波导,利用传输矩阵及时域有限差分方法研究了不同增益系数下该耦合共振波导的透射谱线、色散关系以及群折射率.结果表明,增益介质共振频率附近的反常色散及正常色散变化能有效影响由共振波导几何结构决定的色散关系曲线,且具有相反的效果,分别使其变得平坦和陡峭,从而放大和缩小由共振波导几何结构决定的群折射率.另外,增益系数随外加抽运光改变的特点使得加入增益介质的耦合共振波导具有传输性能可灵活调节特性.文章的研究对促进耦合共振波导在高密度光学集成中的广泛应用具有积极意义. 关键词： 增益介质 耦合共振波导 表面等离子体激元 群折射率     

Finite element analysis of optically controlled non-linear directional coupler switches

Optically controlled two-way optical switches are useful for high-speed photonic switches and rapidly reconfigurable optical interconnection networks. A directional coupler forms such a switch because the field can be switched from one waveguide to the other by altering the optical length of the waveguide. Nonlinear materials are incorporated in the waveguide so that the optical path length may be altered by using an optical control beam to vary the intensity of light. A finite element method is described that enables the modelling of the non-linear dual waveguide structure for arbitrary waveguide shapes. Spurious modes are avoided in the transverse magnetic field method and non-linearity is handled by iteration and assuming an equivalent non-linear relative permittivity.     

New waveguide modes in anisotropic structures

The existence of new hybrid waveguide modes of properly tailored integrated optical waveguides consisting of ultrathin films clad by positive birefringent media is pointed out.     

Analytical approximation solutions for 3-D optical waveguides: Review

The rectangular dielectric waveguide is the most commonly used structure in integrated optics, especially in semi-conductor diode lasers. Demands for new applications such as high-speed data backplanes in integrated electronics, waveguide filters, optical multiplexers and optical switches are driving technology toward better materials and processing techniques for planar waveguide structures. The infinite slab and circular waveguides that we know are not practical for use on a substrate because the slab waveguide has no lateral confinement and the circular fiber is not compatible with the planar processing technology being used to make planar structures. The rectangular waveguide is the natural structure. In this review, we have discussed several analytical methods for analyzing the mode structure of rectangular structures, beginning with a wave analysis based on the pioneering work of Marcatili. We study three basic techniques with examples to compare their performance levels. These are the analytical approach developed by Marcatili, the perturbation techniques, which improve on the analytical solutions and the effective index method with examples. T Srinivas received the B.Sc. (Hon.) degree from Nehru Science College, Hydrabad and M.E. (Int.) and Ph.D. dgrees from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan from 1992 to 1996. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. His areas of interests are optical communication networks, integrated optics, micro-opto-electrical-mechanical systems (MOEMS) and fiberoptic sensors     

离子交换铒掺杂硅酸盐玻璃波导光放大特性

将集成光学放大器用于光纤通信系统中是人们越来越感兴趣的课题，由此导致人们寻找与此相适应的稀土掺杂玻璃材料。给出了一系列Er^3 ／Yb^3 共掺杂硅酸盐玻璃波导的制备和光谱特性的基本结果。平面和条型波导均由Ag^ -Na^ 离子交换技术制备。光谱测量显示，所有样品在1532nm都观测到了荧光发射峰．其半高谱宽为19nm。用波长为514．5nm和980nm的激光抽运，测得多数样品中Er^3 离子在亚稳态^4I13.2能级上的荧光寿命均为7ms左右。Er^3 ／Yb^3 共掺杂玻璃的上转换均低于单掺Er^3 玻璃。用250mW，波长为980nm的激光抽运3．5cm长的条形波导，在1536nm波段下得到的最大净增益是5dB，增益谱的半峰全宽是14nm。     

Fabrication techniques for colymer/Si optical waveguide

In this paper fabrication techniques were investigated for polymer/Si optical waveguide. The aluminum film was used as photolithographic mask instead of photoresist to improve waveguide profile. The influence of aluminum metal cladding produced by sputtering process on the optical character of the device was discussed. The absorption loss was calculated and measured by using effective index method and cut-back method, respectively. Optimized etching parameters were given in reactive ion etching using oxygen, such as radio frequency power and gas flow rate. Measured near-field mode pattern indicated fabrication waveguide achieved single-mode transmission at wavelength 1.55 μm.     

条形半导体激光器光束质量因子M2的理论计算

通过一个二维半矢量模型求得纯折射率导引脊形波导和掩埋波导这两种常见平面条形半导体激光器波导结构的模式光场分布，现通过描述光束传播的非傍轴矢量二阶矩，通过平面波谱的方法获得激光器出射光束在横向和侧向上的束腰、远场发散角和M^2因子。讨论了波导结构参量变化对M^2因子的影响，并对两种波导结构光束的性质与波导参量的关系进行了比较。     

Planar waveguides in neodymium-doped calcium niobium gallium garnet crystals produced by proton implantation

In this work, the fabrication and optical properties of a planar waveguide in a neodymium-doped calcium niobium gallium garnet(Nd:CNGG) crystal are reported. The waveguide is produced by proton(H~+) implantation at 480 ke V and a fluence of 1.0×10~(17) ions/cm~2. The prism-coupling measurement is performed to obtain the dark mode of the waveguide at a wavelength of 632.8nm. The reflectivity calculation method(RCM) is used to reconstruct the refractive index profile. The finite-difference beam propagation method(FD-BPM) is employed to calculate the guided mode profile of the waveguide.The stopping and range of ions in matter 2010(SRIM 2010) code is used to simulate the damage profile induced by the ion implantation. The experimental and theoretical results indicate that the waveguide can confine the light propagation.     

Compton散射下多信道平面光波导的空间光孤子开关

应用量子微扰理论和多光子非线性Compton散射模型,对Compton散射下多信道平面光波导的空间光孤子开关进行了研究.结果表明:在横向具有正弦形周期折射率调制的非线性平面光波导的多信道系统中,原先束缚在一个信道中的孤子可以靠由入射和散射光形成的耦合控制光点,通过交叉相位调制横向吸引孤子波束,使孤子从原信道切换到邻近信道,从而实现光孤子开关的功能.控制光点可由耦合光在势谷之间的横向聚焦来实现.散射既能使控制光点的有效强度的阈值和孤子的辐射损耗增大,势垒增高,幅度下降较小,有利于孤子开关的形成;又能使波束展宽较宽,并存在开关被破坏的危险.由此可见,Compton散射下恰当控制入射激光强度是实现孤子开关的关键.     

Compact surface plasmon amplifier in nonlinear hybrid waveguide

Surface plasmon polariton(SPP), a sub-wavelength surface wave promising for photonic integration, always suffers from the large metallic loss that seriously restricts its practical application. Here, we propose a compact SPP amplifier based on a nonlinear hybrid waveguide(a combination of silver, LiNbO_3, and SiO_2), where a couple of Bragg gratings are introduced in the waveguide to construct a cavity. This special waveguide is demonstrated to support a highly localized SPP-like hybrid mode and a low loss waveguide-like hybrid mode. To provide a large nonlinear gain, a pumping wave input from the LiNbO_3 waveguide is designed to resonate inside the cavity and satisfy the cavity phase matching to fulfill the optical parametric amplification(OPA) of the SPP signal. Proper periods of gratings and the cavity length are chosen to satisfy the impedance matching condition to ensure the high input efficiency of the pump wave from the outside into the cavity. In theoretical calculations, this device demonstrates a high performance in a very compact scheme(~3.32 μm) and a much lower pumping power for OPA compared with single-pass pumping. To obtain a comprehensive insight into this cavity OPA, the influences of the pumping power, cavity length, and the initial phase are discussed in detail.     

Electron beam duplication of integrated optical circuits and masks

An electron beam duplication technique has been developed that permits the rapid (2–15 min) fabrication of masks suitable for integrated optical elements (2000 A precision over a 5 × 5 cm area). The technique is based on the use of a master mask, which, when exposed to UV light emits electrons in the desired pattern. The electrons are then accelarated and focused onto the substrate. We have used this technique to duplicate complex optical waveguide structures in electron resist (polyphenylsiloxane) and to prepare masks for the fabrication of waveguides in inorganic materials (SiO₂).     

Ultrafast laser written active devices

Direct‐write optical waveguide device fabrication is probably the most widely studied application of femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent dielectrics at the present time. Devices such as buried waveguides, power splitters, couplers, gratings, optical amplifiers and laser oscillators have all been demonstrated. This paper reviews the application of the femtosecond laser direct‐write technique to the fabrication of active waveguide devices in bulk glass materials.     

An Approximate Theoretical Model of Surface Plasmon Resonance Optical Waveguide and Fibre-optic Sensors

Optical surface plasmon resonance (SPR) excitation can be theoretically depicted and discussed using Fresnel’s equations. However, Fresnel’s equations cannot explicitly give expressions to reflect the characteristics of SPR systems, especially in SPR optical waveguide and fibre-optic sensors. In this paper a mathematical model based on the approximation proposed by Kretschmann in bulk optics is presented to describe the characteristics of SPR optical waveguide and fibre-optic sensors. The results show that the model keeps high accuracy when used in the area close to the minimum reflection, at which the resonance condition is achieved. This model can be used to analytically estimate the performance of SPR optical waveguide sensors, and SPR fibre-optic sensors in meridional rays approximation.     

质子交换Y分支光波导弯曲损耗研究

对采用退火质子交换技术(APE)制备的具有正弦型弯曲和余弦型弯曲两种不同的S型弯曲的Y分支光波导,利用宽角有限差分光束传播法,就过渡区长度、波导表面折射率增量、掩模版开口宽度等对波导弯曲损耗的影响进行了研究。结果表明,两种S弯曲下的Y分支波导的弯曲损耗,随波导结构参数的变化基本上是相同的,但二者的表现并不完全一致。数值计算结果为相应波导器件的设计和制备提供了一定的参考。