Theoretical Investigation of Coupling to Optical Waveguides with Linearly Tapered Horns.
Abstract
One of the design areas in inteegrated optics that generates conflicting requirements is the fabrication of modulators. One one hand, the figure of merit (the ratio of drive power at center frequency to bandwidth) of modulators improves as the device size is reduced to micron and even sub-micron dimension. While on the other hand, the optical insertion loss problem generally deteriorates with reduced size. Insertion loss is attributable to several factors. Among these are the geometric factors of wall roughness and input and output coupling. This report is concerned with an aspect of the coupling problem.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1973
- Accession Number
- ADA030108
Entities
People
- Jay H. Harris
- R. K. Winn
Organizations
- University of Washington