Optical fiber coupling to single-mode silica-based planar lightwave circuits with fiber-guiding grooves |
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Authors: | Akio Sugita Katsuhide Onose Yasuji Ohmori Mitsuho Yasu |
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a NIT Opto-Electronics Laboratories Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan |
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Abstract: | To enable alignmentfree optical fiber coupling to single-mode silica-based waveguides, fiber-guiding grooves are fabricated in the same substrate as waveguide circuits.These grooves are used successfully to couple optical fiber to Waveguides. An average, fiber-to-waveguide coupling loss of 0.6 dB per interface is obtained with eight arrayedguiding grooves, and it is expected that this will further be reduced to 0.2 dB per interface. The coupling loss varies by ±0.3 dB during thermal cycling between -10°C and +60°C. |
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