Directly UV-written silica-on-silicon planar waveguides with low insertion loss
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 34 (16), 1582-1584
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19981091
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.Keywords
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