Optical waveguide embedded light redirecting Bragg grating arran

Details Optical waveguide embedded light redirecting Bragg grating arran Optical waveguide embedded light redirecting Bragg grating arran

1989-12-26

1991-08-27

Sikes, William L.

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Input/output coupler

G02B 634

Patent

active

050428977

ABSTRACT:
An optical waveguide light tapping arrangement includes an optical waveguide having solid portions that guide light in a first path along a longitudinal axis, with at least one grating region being embedded in the solid portion at a location remote from its end portions. The grating region includes a multitude of grating elements extending with a substantially equal longitudinal spacing at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis to redirect light reaching the grating elements between the first path and at least one second path extending externally of the waveguide at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis that depends on the oblique angle. When light is directed in one of the first and second paths toward the grating region, it is redirected by the grating elements into the respectively other of the second and first paths with attendant in-phase combination in the other path of light having a wavelength within a narrow range around a central wavelength that is in a predetermined relationship to the spacing of the grating elements. The light propagating in the other path can then be captured. The grating elements are formed in the core by exposing the core to an interference pattern of two ultraviolet radiation beams that are symmetrical with respect to a plane extending at the oblique angle relative to the core axis.

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patent: 4946245 (1990-08-01), Chamberlin et al.

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