Electronics Letters · 1984 · 19 citations · 1 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOptical MaterialsPhotonicsFiber OpticsIntegrated OpticsIntegrated PhotonicsOptical FibersOptical WaveguidesWaveguidesChannel WaveguidesFiber CouplingFiber Optic WaveguidesInsertion LossMultimode Optical FibersMultimode WaveguidesOptical Fiber WaveguidesWaveguide Coupling
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.
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