Polymeric digital optical switch based on photobleached waveguides

광표백 폴리머 광도파로를 이용한 디지탈 광스위치

  • 이상신 (한국과학기술원 전기 및 전자공학과) ;
  • 신상영 (한국과학기술원 전기 및 전자공학과)
  • Published : 1996.12.01

Abstract

An electro-optic polymer digital optical switch was fabricated by using a photobleached waveguide and a self-aligned electrode. It features wavelength insensitive operation, fabrication tolerance and flexible design. And its possible advantages include low coupling losses to the fibers and wide bandwidths. For improving its switching performance, the guided mode profiles of the photobleached waveguides were controlled by photobleaching times to achieve optimized coupling in the branch. And the self-aligned electrode was employed to achieve both efficient overlap of the optical and electric fields and easy introduction of the adiabatically tapered electrodes. The measured crosstalks were better than -21dB at 1.32 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and 1.55 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, and the extinction ratios of each output port were also more than 20 dB.

광표백 광도파로 자기정렬 전극을 이용하여 전기광학 폴리머 디지탈 광스위치를 제작하였다. 이 광스위치는 파장에 무관하게 동작하고 제작조건에 민감하지 않고 설계가 다양하다는 특성을 갖는다. 또한 광섬유와의 결합 손실이 작고 넓은 대역폭을 갖는 장점이 있다. 스위칭 성능을 향상시킬 목적으로 광표백 시간을 이용하여 광표백 광도파로의 도파모드 분포를 적절하게 조절함으로써 브랜치 영역에서의 모드 결합을 최적화 하였다. 또한 광과 인가 전계의 효과적인 겹침과 점진적으로 테이퍼된 전극을 형성하기 위해 자기정렬전극을 이용하였다. 측정된 누화는 1.32.mu.m와 1.55.mu.m에서 모두 -21dB 이하였고 각 출력포트의 소멸비도 모두 20dB 이상이었다.

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