a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
b State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
Abstract:
Mode-matching and effective index methods are used to analyze single-mode operation of optical rib polymer waveguides. Their single-mode waveguiding conditions are determined. Single-mode rib waveguides fabricated from guest–host polyetherketone are presented. The estimated propagation loss of straight rib-waveguides is 0.7 dB/cm at 1.55 μm. Furthermore, by using the mode field-transfer matrix method, 2×2 and 4×4 polymer Mach–Zehnder interference switch operating at 1.55 μm wavelength has been designed based on optical multi-mode interference.