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Directly UV-written silica-on-silicon planar waveguideswith low insertion loss

Dan A. Zauner, K. Kulstad, J. Rathje, Mikael Svalgaard

Electronics Letters · 1998 · 37 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

The coupling loss between directly UV-written planar waveguides and standard telecom fibre has been reduced by index matching the three layer structure used for UV writing. Insertion losses down to 0.1 dB for 3 cm long waveguides have been achieved.

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Direct UV writing of buried singlemode channelwaveguides in Ge-doped silica films

Mikael Svalgaard, C.V. Poulsen, Anders Bjarklev et al. · Electronics Letters · 1994 · 157 citations

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Directly UV written silica-on-silicon planar waveguideswith low loss

Mikael Svalgaard, Martin Kristensen · Electronics Letters · 1997 · 52 citations

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Direct writing of planar waveguide power splittersanddirectional couplers using a focused ultraviolet laser beam

Mikael Svalgaard · Electronics Letters · 1997 · 45 citations

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