An efficient N*N passive optical star coupler

4 December 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 26-27
https://doi.org/10.1109/oman.1990.205421

Abstract

A recently proposed and developed coupler (C. Dragone, IEEE J. of Lightwave Technol., vol.7, no.3, p.479-89, 1989) with an optimized efficiency between 34% and 55% is considered. It is shown that a 100% efficiency figure can be achieved by using a properly designed space-varying refractive index slab. A wave-mixing method for configuring the slab is proposed. The analytical results are summarized.

Keywords

OPTICAL COUPLING
OPTICAL REFRACTION
OPTICAL MIXING
OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL
EQUATIONS
SLABS
REFRACTIVE INDEX
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OPTICAL SURFACE WAVES
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Efficient N*N star couplers using Fourier optics
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 1989
Two-wave mixing in nonlinear media
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1989