Optical waveguide grating coupler device

Details Optical waveguide grating coupler device Optical waveguide grating coupler device

1991-06-06

1992-03-31

Healy, Brian

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Input/output coupler

385 14, 385130, G02B 634

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active

051014599

ABSTRACT:
An optical waveguide device comprises an optical waveguide for guiding an optical wave therethrough, and a grating coupler, which is located on a surface of the optical waveguide and which couples the guided optical wave traveling in the optical waveguide with an external optical wave. The grating coupler is provided with a plurality of bars, the heights h of which vary linearly in the direction along which the guided optical wave travels. The inclination b of the variation of the bar heights h satisfies the condition ##EQU1## where a represents a coefficient which determines a radiation loss coefficient .alpha. (.alpha.=ah2), and L represents the length of the grating coupler, which length is taken in the direction along which the guided optical wave travels. The guided optical wave is radiated very efficiently as an approximately Gaussian beam out of the optical waveguide, or an external optical wave, which takes on the form of a Gaussian beam, is introduced very efficiently into the optical waveguide.

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