Adjustable optical switch or modulator

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1975-12-17

1977-03-15

Corbin, John K.

350 96WG, G02B 516

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040121135

ABSTRACT:
An optical switch of the switched directional coupler type is provided with an adjustable cross-over state as well as an adjustable straight-through state, in order to provide reduced crosstalk in the cross-over state, for example, when the switches are used in an optical switching system. The improved switch is based on asynchronous or phase-mismatched coupling between two parallel optical strip guides driven by electrodes to which the voltage is applied. In order to use phase-mismatched coupling instead of phase-matched coupling for the cross-over state, in order thereby to obtain electrical adjustability of that state, the driving electrodes are split into two or more sequential sections, thereby defining two sequential coupling sections of the parallel optical strip guides. The cross-over coupling is then achieved by switching the mismatch conditions so that at the point of partial coupling the "nonoriginating" guide appears to the coupled optical waves to be the "originating" guide.

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Taylor "Optical-waveguide Connecting Networks" Electronic Letters vol. 10, No. 4 pp. 41-43 Feb. 1974.
Papuchon et al. "Electrically Switched Optical Directional Coupler" App. Phys. Letts. vol. 27 Sept. 1975 pp. 289-291.
Papuchon et al. "Electrically Switched Optical Directional Coupler" IEEE Journal of Quant. Elect. vol. QE11, article 13.B4.
Campbell et al. "GaAs Electro-optic Directional Coupler Switch" App. Phys. Letts. vol. 27 Sept. 1975 pp. 202-204.

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