Trimming of polymer waveguide Y-junction by rapid photobleaching for tuning the power splitting ratio

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1499-1501

  Chen, Antao ^a   Chuyanov, Vadim ^a   Marti Carrera, Felix Ignacio ^a   Garner, Scan ^a   Steier, William H ^a   Mao, Shane S H ^b   Ra, Younsoo ^b   Dalton, Larry R ^b   Shi, Yongqiang ^c  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TACAN Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyes; Laser materials processing applications; Laser tuning; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber communication; Optical strip waveguide components; Optical waveguides; Plastic materials devices

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

LASER TRIMMING TECHNIQUE; PHOTOBLEACHING; POWER SPLITTING RATIO;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031270533     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.634721     Document Type: Article

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