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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/HKH.2009.20.2.128

Design of Internal Coupling Structure for Touch Panel Devices Using Optical Coupling of a Pen-Shaped Light Source with Optical Waveguides  

Park, Dae-Seo (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
Kim, Dae-Jong (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
O, Beom-Hoan (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
Park, Se-Geun (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
Lee, El-Hang (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
Lee, Seung-Gol (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.20, no.2, 2009 , pp. 128-133 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, an optical touch panel device is newly proposed, with operating principle based on the optical coupling between a pointing pen having a built-in light source and perpendicularly crossed optical waveguide arrays. In order to enable an external light to couple into a waveguide core, the auxiliary pyramidal structures are introduced into all intersecting points located periodically along optical waveguides. The shape is optimized for minimizing the unwanted propagation loss due to the same structure by a ray tracing method. For the optical waveguide with the size of $50{\times}50{\mu}m^2$, the bottom width, height, and slope angle of the optimized pyramidal structure are $50{\mu}m$, $22.5{\mu}m$, and $42^{\circ}$, respectively. The optical coupling efficiency of about 97.8% and the average propagation loss of 0.3 dB/mm were achieved for the optimized touch panel. Finally, it is found from the tolerance analysis that tilting of the pen up to ${\pm}12^{\circ}$ can be allowed.
Keywords
Touch screen; Touch panel; Light pen; Optical coupling; Optical waveguide;
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