Optical-fibre coupling to high-silica channel waveguides with fibre-guiding grooves

12 April 1984

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 20 (8) , 313-314
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19840212

Abstract

A practical coupling technique between high-silica multimode channel waveguides and optical fibres has been demonstrated using guiding grooves formed simultaneously with waveguides on a substrate. The fibre-waveguide (15 mm long)-fibre insertion loss was 1.23 dB.

Keywords

OPTICAL FIBRES
INTEGRATED OPTICS
HIGH SILICA TYPE
COUPLING TECHNIQUE
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
SIO2-TIO2
GUIDING GROOVES
MULTIMODE CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES