Low-loss glass-based buried multimode waveguides are fabricated by using the field-assisted Ag+-Na+ ion-exchange technique, and multimode optical power splitters are investigated. The measured loss of the multimode waveguides is lower than 0.1dB/cm, and the additional loss of the multimode optical power splitters is lower than 1.3 dB under the uniform splitting condition.
In this paper, an accurate Fourier Optics method of designing AWG demultiplexer based on high-index-contract Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) materials is presented. The typical SOI photonic wire waveguide has a cross section of 400×340nm 2 satisfying single-mode condition, and operating central wavelength is 1.5500μm. A three-stigmatic-points method is also applied in order to improve the accuracy, considering the aberration theory. Furthermore, our AWG has another important characteristic--the flat field of the output ports. In the example presented here, we design a 1×256 channel AWG with 0.1-nm channel spacing. The simulation result shows that the insert loss is almost 0dB for the central and peripheral output ports as well, representing a good uniformity. Meanwhile, the crosstalk to the adjacent channel is 14.4dB. Free spectral region (FSR) equals to 30nm as designed.
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