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。     

基于有机聚合物的M-Z波导设计

M-Z光波导是有机聚合物电光调制器的重要结构单元.将有效折射率法与二维差分束传播法相结合,利用有效折射率法计算了聚合物脊形波导的横向折射率分布及有效折射率.由Maxwell方程出发,结合辐射透明边界条件,采用Crank-Nicholson差分格式,得出有限差分束传播法的计算格式.通过对M-Z型波导结构中TM模的传播及损...     

Design and numerical analysis for low birefringence silica on silicon waveguides

A new fabrication technology for three-dimensionally buried silica on silicon optical waveguide based on deep etching and thermal oxidation is presented.Using this method,a silicon layer is left at the side of waveguide.The stress distribution and effective refractive index are calculated by using finite element method and finite different beam propagation method,respectively.The results indicate that the stress of silica on silicon optical waveguide fabricated by this method can be matched in parallel and vertical directions and stress birefringence can be effectively reduced due to the side-silicon layer.     

Ag-Na离子交换玻璃波导的折射率分布研究

用Ag-Na离子交换技术制备了玻璃平面波导.通过棱镜耦合技术测量了波导的模折射率,用反WKB方法拟合得到了平面波导的折射率分布为高斯分布.发现Ag-Na离子交换的扩散系数与交换时间有关,并且随着交换时间的增加而减小.使用随离子浓度变化的扩散系数求解扩散方程得到了玻璃内部Ag离子浓度分布,并通过SEM谱证实了求解的正确性;使用一次多项式模拟的方法求解折射率变化与Ag离子浓度变化之间的关系,得到了平面波导的折射率分布.与反WKB法只能获得多模离子交换平面波导的折射率分布相比,这种方法可以得到任意扩散时间下折射率变化与Ag离子浓度,可以获得单模平面波导的折射率分布.     

Numerical simulation of low loss silicon photonic wire waveguide with multiple cladding layers

A different silicon photonic wire waveguide is proposed, which uses multiple thin cladding layers in order to reduce the index contrast between core and cladding interface. The reduced index contrast in the proposed waveguide has led to reduction in the scattering losses by 37% as compared to silicon wire waveguide for 400 nm × 220 nm waveguide dimension. The proposed waveguide has shown significant reduction in bending losses. It offers the bending loss of 0.0118 dB at the radius of 1 μm and 0.0063 dB for a radius of 2 μm at 1.55 μm wavelength as compared to 0.086 and 0.013 dB at the radius of 1 and 2 μm, respectively, offered by silicon photonic wire waveguide at 1.5 μm wavelength. The use of polymer material as top cladding layer resulted in decreasing the sensitivity of effective index against temperature for the designed waveguide by a factor of 2 as compared to silicon wire waveguide.     

Diffraction of electromagnetic radiation near an interface between discrete positive and negative refractive media

The discrete diffraction of electromagnetic waves near the interface between two different media formed by waveguide arrays is studied. One of the arrays consists of waveguides made of a positive index material; the other, of waveguides made of a negative index material. The refraction of a beam resulting from diffraction at the interface obeys an analog of Snell’s law.     

Coupling into the slow light mode in slab-type photonic crystal waveguides

Coupling external light signals into a photonic crystal (PhC) waveguide becomes increasingly inefficient as the group velocity of the waveguiding mode slows down. We have systematically studied the efficiency of coupling in the slow light regime for samples with different truncations of the photonic lattice at the coupling interface between a strip waveguide and a PhC waveguide. An inverse power law dependence is found to best fit the experimental scaling of the coupling loss on the group index. Coupling efficiency is significantly improved up to group indices of 100 for a truncation of the lattice that favors the appearance of photonic surface states at the coupling interface in resonance with the slow light mode.     

全电极脊形波导光传输特性

给出一种较为简便的全电极脊形波导的分析方法,即采用有效折射率方法把此金属包层脊形波导化成一个二维等效平板波导,然后利用微分法得到模的有效折射率满足的方程和吸收损耗系数的解析表达式.作为一个特例,用这种方法对SiO2全电极脊形波导光传输特性如光传播常数和损耗进行了计算, 并得到一些有益的结论.     

Planar waveguide analysis by the spectral index method. I: Rib and uniformly buried waveguides

The scope of the spectral index method for solving general planar waveguiding problems is analysed by first showing how simple it is to set up a closed-form transcendental equation whose solution is very accurate; the solution is so fast that the method can be used as a subroutine, making it possible to solve many two-dimensional problems fully, even for coupled rib waveguides, without using effective index approximations. The method is then extended to the uniformly buried waveguide of rectangular cross-section, and the corresponding coupler, thereby unifying the effective index, transverse resonance and spectral index methods for the first time, and giving an asymptotic expression for the coupling length without using overlap integrals. Finally, sample numerical results and optical field profiles are given for the rib waveguide and rib waveguide coupler.     

掩埋型离子交换玻璃光波导的变分分析

用变分法对离子交换法制备的掺铒光波导的传播特性进行了分析,推导出了适用于掩埋型离子交换玻璃沟道光波导中场分布传播常量的变分表达式,构建了场分布的厄米-高斯型试探解,在两种不同实验条件下,采用变分法确定了试探解中的待定参量,获得光波导中的场分布,利用传播常量的变分公式和已确定的场分布计算得到了传播常量和有效折射率。计算数据表明:导波区域的有效折射率稍稍地大于限制层的折射率,说明离子交换法制备的波导器件是弱波导;高的辅助退火电场强度和适当的退火时间下,所制备的光波导可以支持更多光模式的传输。该方法计算过程简洁、快速,计算结果与实验结果吻合。     

基于光子晶体马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的太赫兹开关及强度调制器

通过对二维正方晶格光子晶体线缺陷模色散曲线慢光特性的研究, 利用外电场对液晶分子取向的调控作用, 在填充液晶的正方晶格波导的马赫-曾德尔干涉仪结构中实现了开关和强度调制等功能. 利用平面波展开法计算了光子晶体波导的线缺陷模, 分析了液晶折射率的变化对缺陷模的影响. 计算表明, 液晶折射率仅改变了0.1, 线缺陷模有效折射率改变达0.168, 该特性可以更为有效地实现对相位的控制, 进而实现高消光比开关和强度调制功能, 这种高效的相位调节器件在集成光系统中将有很好的应用前景.     

Optical Waveguide Formed in RbTiOPO4 Crystal by 6.0 MeV O^3＋ Implantation

A planar optical waveguide was formed in RbTiOP04 crystal by 6.0-MeV oxygen ion implantation with the dose of 2 × 10^15 ions/cm2 at room temperature. Annealing at 200℃ for 30min in air is performed to improve the thermal stability of the waveguide. The dark modes of the waveguide are measured at wavelengths 633 and 1539 nm, respectively. The refractive index profiles in the guiding layer are reconstructed by using the reflectivity calculation method. TRIM＇98 code was carried out to simulate the damage profiles caused by the implantation process to obtain a better understanding of the waveguide formation.     

Novel high-quality Fano resonance based on metal-insulator-metal waveguide with L-shaped resonators

Developing a convenient method that can be routinely applied for ascertaining proportions of different vegetable oils employed in commercial blended edible oils remains a significant challenge. We address this issue by proposing a novel method for detecting volume fraction of different oils based on the fact that these oils are optically transparent and have slightly different indices of refraction at a given temperature and wavelength. Accordingly, we develop a highly sensitive sensor for measuring the index of refraction of oil blends based on Fano resonance spectra obtained using a metal-insulatormetal(MIM) waveguide structure comprising a gapped straight waveguide coupled with two L-shaped resonators. The index of refraction sensitivity and figure of merit of the structure are calculated based on modeling using the finite element method, and the waveguide structure is accordingly optimized by adjusting the different geometric parameters to achieve a high-quality Fano resonance spectrum. The optimized structure achieves an ultra-high refractive index sensitivity of 770 nm/RIU in terms of a refractive index unit(RIU) of 1. Moreover, a highly stable linear relationship is obtained between the refractive index of mixed edible oils and the resonance wavelength. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed structure can detect slight changes in the volume fractions of the components in blended oils.     

Observation of two-dimensional lattice interface solitons

We report on the experimental observation of two-dimensional solitons at the interface between square and hexagonal waveguide arrays. In addition to the different symmetries of the lattices, the influence of a varying refractive index modulation depth is investigated. Such variation strongly affects the properties of surface solitons residing at different sides of the interface.     

光波导技术同步测量棱镜及波导薄膜参数

依据全反射理论和棱镜耦合原理,实现了对棱镜折射率及波导薄膜材料折射率和厚度的同步测量。使用高准直半导体激光器激光入射到棱镜内部与波导膜的分界面上,逐步旋转棱镜或改变棱镜的入射角,得到棱镜耦合M线,曲线前面几组的波谷为波导模激发,在M线左侧收尾处有一个不完整波峰,其反射光强随入射角迅速衰减,为全反射时的临界点,由此可实现棱镜及波导薄膜参数的同步测量;用此法测量了棱镜耦合一体化平面波导棱镜的折射率和聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)聚合物波导薄膜的折射率和厚度。测量棱镜折射率精度为±1.9×10-4,波导薄膜折射率和厚度的精度分别为±6.2×10-4 μm和±1.6×10-2 μm。     

Experimental observation and numerical simulation of guided modes in Nd:YLiF4 channel waveguides produced by carbon ion implantation

We report on, to our knowledge the first time, the channel waveguide formation in Nd:YLiF₄ laser crystal produced by 6 MeV carbon ion implantation. The guided modes are observed by using an end‐face arrangement. We construct the two‐dimensional (2D) refractive index profile of the channel waveguide cross section, which is based on the related planar waveguide index distribution as well as the rectangular shape of the waveguide cross sections. The modal intensity distribution is numerically calculated by using the beam propagation method according to the reconstructed index profile, which shows a reasonable agreement with the experimental result. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Optical planar waveguides in Yb³⁺-doped phosphate glasses produced by He⁺ ion implantation

Optical planar waveguides in Yb 3+-doped phosphate glasses are fabricated by implanting triple-energy helium ions. The guiding modes and the near-field intensity distribution are measured by using the prism-coupling method and the end-face coupling setup with a He-Ne laser at 633 nm The intensity calculation method (ICM) is used to reconstruct the refractive index profile of the waveguide. The absorption and the fluorescence investigations reveal that the glass bulk features are well preserved in the active volumes of the waveguides, suggesting the fabricated structures for possible applications as waveguide lasers.     

锥形脊结构半导体光放大器的有限元分析

为提高半导体光放大器与单模光纤耦合效率，建立了半导体放大器的锥形脊结构模型。在该模型下利用有限元数值模拟方法分析，计算了波导区折射率、锥尖宽度、条形波导尺寸、渐变折射率波导层对锥形脊结构模式扩展的影响。通过完善锥形脊结构参量的设计，获得了锥形脊结构半导体光放大器与单模光纤95％的耦合效率。     

电压调控多种金属膜波导特性研究

采用自由空间耦合的方法,激发双面金属包覆波导中的超高阶导模,通过在双面金属包覆介质波导的两个金属膜上加不同的电压,改变导波层铌酸锂的厚度和折射率,得到不同参数下的衰减全反射谱,从而验证超高阶导模的偏振不灵敏性及对导波层厚度和折射率十分灵敏的特殊性质,实验结果与理论相吻合。比较相同条件下反射率的变化,得到铝包覆波导的灵敏度要高于金包覆波导。所得结果对集成光电子器件的研制有一定的参考价值。     

New design of a beam-steering thermooptic multimode polymer waveguide switch

We present simulations of a Y-branch directional coupler activated using the thermooptic effect in a multimode polymer waveguide. Microheaters embedded beneath both sides of the waveguide at the Y-branch are used to generate an inhomogeneous temperature profile. Through the thermooptic effect, this temperature profile creates a refractive index profile in the channel waveguide material, which steers the beam to one of the two output branches. We determined the expected thermal profiles using finite element modeling (FEM). The transmission of a basic mode through the waveguide was then simulated using the beam propagation method (BPM). The results show that a high contrast ratio (>90%) can be achieved in response times on the order of 1 ms. Electronic supplementary material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at and is accessible for authorized users.PACS 42.82.Et; 42.70.Jk; 42.79.Ta