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2 August 2012 Design and fabrication of an imprinted wavelength-independent coupler
Kyung-Su Jang, Chang-Seok Kim, Myung-Yong Jeong, Eung-Soo Kim
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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 8, 085003 (August 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.8.085003
Abstract
An imprinted polymeric wavelength-independent coupler (WINC), which is one of the core components used in optical fiber communications and fiber-to-the-home systems, was designed with a beam propagation method. Its designed structure has the form of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The polymer core size of the WINC was optimized at 8×8  μm using an imprinting technique, the hot embossing process. Optical properties of the polymeric WINC were evaluated by measuring its insertion loss and transmission spectrum. The insertion loss values for channels 1 and 2 were 3.5 and 4.2 dB, respectively, and the transmission spectrum was flat over a range of 1260 to 1640 nm.
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Kyung-Su Jang, Chang-Seok Kim, Myung-Yong Jeong, and Eung-Soo Kim "Design and fabrication of an imprinted wavelength-independent coupler," Optical Engineering 51(8), 085003 (2 August 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.8.085003
Published: 2 August 2012
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides
Polymers
Fiber to the x
Polymer multimode waveguides
Optical communications
Optical fibers
Optical engineering
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