GRATING-ASSISTED WAVE-GUIDE-TO-WAVE-GUIDE COUPLERS

Authors
LIANG T ZIOLKOWSKI RW
Citation
T. Liang et Rw. Ziolkowski, GRATING-ASSISTED WAVE-GUIDE-TO-WAVE-GUIDE COUPLERS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(5), 1998, pp. 693-695
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
10
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
693 - 695
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1998)10:5<693:GWC>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A new radiation-type waveguide-to-waveguide coupler is proposed. The c oupling is realized through gratings embedded on the dielectric wavegu ides involved. Compared to the conventional hybrid-mode coupler, this type of coupler has advantages in that the two waveguides can be quite dissimilar as well as being separated by large distances. It is demon strated that the coupling performance of this radiation-type coupler c an be enhanced significantly by using photonic bandgap (PBG) structure s.