Optical waveguide films with two-layer skirt-type core end facets for beam leakage reduction at 45° mirrors

Tetsuzo Yoshimura; Kazuhiro Ogushi; Yohei Kitabayashi; Kaneyuki Naito; Yosuke Miyamoto; Masayoshi Miyazaki

doi:10.1117/12.754105

8 February 2008 Optical waveguide films with two-layer skirt-type core end facets for beam leakage reduction at 45° mirrors

Tetsuzo Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Ogushi, Yohei Kitabayashi, Kaneyuki Naito, Yosuke Miyamoto, Masayoshi Miyazaki

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Proceedings Volume 6899, Photonics Packaging, Integration, and Interconnects VIII; 689913 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.754105
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2008, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Three-dimensional optical wiring, consisting of stacked optical waveguide films with 45° mirrors, is a backbone for integrated optical interconnects and solar energy conversion systems. By using the self-organized lightwave network (SOLNET) technique, we observed leakage/scattering of guided light beams at 45° mirrors of core end facets in optical waveguide films. When 405-nm write beams were introduced into the optical waveguide having a photo-refractive material layer on the back, three excess lines of SOLNET, which may be caused by the guided beam tunneling into the cladding film and by the refraction at core end facet corners, were grown from the 45° mirror, in addition to a vertical waveguide of SOLNET formed by reflected beams. To reduce the leakage/scattering, we proposed the two-layer skirt-type cores with low-index (LI) part and high-index (HI) part. The LI part located between the HI part and the cladding film prevents the guided beams from tunneling into the film. The skirt-type core end facets put the corners away from the beam path. These effects were confirmed by simulations using the beam propagation method and the finite difference time domain method. Optical waveguide films with the proposed structure were fabricated by the built-in mask method.

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Tetsuzo Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Ogushi, Yohei Kitabayashi, Kaneyuki Naito, Yosuke Miyamoto, and Masayoshi Miyazaki "Optical waveguide films with two-layer skirt-type core end facets for beam leakage reduction at 45° mirrors", Proc. SPIE 6899, Photonics Packaging, Integration, and Interconnects VIII, 689913 (8 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.754105

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Waveguides

Mirrors

Integrated optics

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Solar energy

Lithium

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