• Photonic Sensors
  • Vol. 6, Issue 3, 234 (2016)
Yuchen SHAO1, Xiuyou HAN1、*, Xiaonan HAN1, Zhili LU1, Zhenlin WU1, Jie TENG2, Jinyan WANG3, Geert MORTHIER4, and Mingshan ZHAO1
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China
  • 2No. 38 Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Hefei, 230088, China
  • 3School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China
  • 4Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University-IMEC, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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    DOI: 10.1007/s13320-016-0341-9 Cite this Article
    Yuchen SHAO, Xiuyou HAN, Xiaonan HAN, Zhili LU, Zhenlin WU, Jie TENG, Jinyan WANG, Geert MORTHIER, Mingshan ZHAO. Optimal Design of 850 nm 2×2 Multimode Interference Polymer Waveguide Coupler by Imprint Technique[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2016, 6(3): 234 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A 2×2 optical waveguide coupler at 850 nm based on the multimode interference (MMI) structure with the polysilsesquioxanes liquid series (PSQ-Ls) polymer material and the imprint technique is presented. The influence of the structural parameters, such as the single mode condition, the waveguide spacing of input/output ports, and the width and length of the multimode waveguide, on the optical splitting performance including the excess loss and the uniformity is simulated by the beam propagation method. By inserting a taper section of isosceles trapezoid between the single mode and multimode waveguides, the optimized structural parameters for low excess loss and high uniformity are obtained with the excess loss of -0.040 dB and the uniformity of -0.007 dB. The effect of the structure deviations induced during the imprint process on the optical splitting performance at different residual layer thicknesses is also investigated. The analysis results provide useful instructions for the waveguide device fabrication.
    Yuchen SHAO, Xiuyou HAN, Xiaonan HAN, Zhili LU, Zhenlin WU, Jie TENG, Jinyan WANG, Geert MORTHIER, Mingshan ZHAO. Optimal Design of 850 nm 2×2 Multimode Interference Polymer Waveguide Coupler by Imprint Technique[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2016, 6(3): 234
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