Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 35, Issue 3, 313002(2015)

Design and Analysis of Photorefractive Long-Period Waveguide Grating Coupler

Zhang Ming*, Ren Jianwen, Chen Wen, and Le Zichun
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    To obtain an easily made grating coupler with stable materials, a proposal to fabricate photorefractive long- period gratings coupler on Ti- diffused LiNbO3 waveguide is presented. Structural parameters of the coupler can be determined by using effective index method and coupled- mode theory, including grating period as 74.28 mm, separation distance of two waveguides as 8 mm and the minimum grating length for 100% coupling as 2.42 cm. The transmission spectrum is analysed and the 3-dB bandwidth can reach 5.20 nm. The simulation results also show that coupling efficiency is above 90% when tolerance of grating length and offset distance is 0.37 cm and 0.21 cm, respectively. The coupler is expected to be used in coarse wavelength division multiplexing system.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Sep. 1, 2014

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 5, 2015

    The Author Email: Ming Zhang (cim2046@zjut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/aos201535.0313002

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