Patent
1983-12-12
1987-06-23
Sikes, William L.
350 9610, 350 9613, G02B 610
Patent
active
046748296
ABSTRACT:
A process of fabricating an optical directional coupler switch for the TE- and TM-mode polarizations at a given wavelength. Initially, a trial set of waveguide fabrication parameters is used to fabricate a series of channel waveguide directional couplers having the same waveguide spacing and differing interaction lengths. The step is repeated for other waveguide spacings. The power splitting ratio of each directional coupler so fabricated is determined for guided light of one of the polarizations at the given wavelength. For each series of directional couplers having a respective common waveguide spacing, the arctangent of the square root of the power splitting ratio versus the interaction length is graphed and the coupling coefficient for the one polarization is found from the graph slope. The log of the coupling coefficients so determined is graphed versus the corresponding waveguide spacings. The previous three steps are repeated for guided light of the other polarization at the given wavelength. The set of waveguide fabrication parameters is varied and all the steps repeated until the desired set of parameters is arrived at for which the graphs of the log of the coupling coefficients versus the corresponding waveguide spacings for guided light of both polarization at the given wavelength coincide.
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Bulmer Catherine H.
Burns William K.
Forrest John L.
Klein Alan P.
Sikes William L.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Ullah Akm E.
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