Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Particular coupling function
Patent
1992-05-08
1993-02-09
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Particular coupling function
385 11, 385 31, 385131, 385132, 359195, G02B 610
Patent
active
051858282
ABSTRACT:
Mode converter for converting a fraction of one guided mode of an optical signal in an incoming optical waveguide section (A) into another guided mode in an outgoing wave-guiding section (C) by means of a periodic coupling between both guided modes in an intermediate optical waveguide section (B). The intermediate section (B) has a periodic geometrical structure as a result of an N-fold periodic sequence of two light-guiding subsections (P, Q) within a period length (L.sub.P +L.sub.Q). The sequence can be obtained by arranging for the waveguide profiles of the subsections to differ from one another, preferably as a result of differences in width. The sequence can also be obtained by offset joining of the two subsections with the same waveguide profiles. Advantages are: the high degree of integrability, the ability to co-integrate a laser light source in an optical section of a coherent optical receiver and the achievement of a new integrated design of such an optical section, which design is free of metallized elements.
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Healy Brian
Koninklijke PTT Nederland N.V.
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