Simulation of bended planar waveguides for optical bus-couplers

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Beitragende

Abstract

In our work an optical bus-coupler is proposed, which enables easy bidirectional connection between two waveguides without interrupting the bus using a core-to-core coupling principle. With bended waveguides the coupling ratio can be tuned by adjusting the overlap area of the two cores. In order to ensure large overlap areas at short coupling lengths, the waveguides have rectangular cross sections. To examine the feasibility of this coupling concept a simulation was performed, which is presented in this paper. Due to multimode waveguides, used in short range data communication, a non-sequential ray tracing simulation is reasonable. Simulations revealed that the bending of the waveguide causes a redistribution of the energy within the core. Small radii push the main energy to the outer region of the core increasing the coupling efficiency. On the other hand, at excessive lowered bend radii additional losses occur (due to a coupling into the cladding), which is why an optimum has to be found. Based on the simulation results it is possible to derive requirements and design rules for the coupling element.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelOptical Modelling and Design IV
Redakteure/-innenJohn T. Sheridan, Youri Meuret, Frank Wyrowski
Herausgeber (Verlag)SPIE - The international society for optics and photonics, Bellingham
ISBN (elektronisch)9781510601345
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2016
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Band9889
ISSN0277-786X

Konferenz

TitelOptical Modelling and Design IV
Dauer5 - 7 April 2016
StadtBrussels
LandBelgien

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0757-3325/work/139064925

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Non-sequential ray tracing, Optical bus-coupler, Optical modeling, Optical simulation, Planar multimode waveguide, Waveguide bending