• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.351-352
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• 2007

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2002

High-senstivity temperature sensor based on the wavelength selectivity of single mode fiber-to-planar waveguide coupler, was demonstrated. The resonant wavelength of the coupler was shifted with large rate of -3.43nm/$^{\circ}C$ owing to good thermo-optic effects of polymer planar waveguide. The device design technique to reduce the polarization dependent properties and increase the temperature sensitivity was presented.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.207-212
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• 2004

We have investigated the optical characteristics of a directional coupler made of a side-polished polarization maintaining fiber in contact with a multimode planar waveguide and its applications as sensors. A device structural condition to achieve the polarization insensitive wavelength response has been presented. The fabricated devices revealed a superior immunity to the bending and the deformation of PM fibers in the input section. It is experimentally shown that the proposed device is suitable for a remote fiber sensor.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.7
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• pp.42-49
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• 1999

In this paper, we proposed a simple measurement method to find the behaviors of the fiber-to-waveguide coupler. The polished fiber blocks and planar waveguides on silicon dioxide were fabricated independently and then optically coupled by physical pressure. Several kinds of polymer with different refractive indices were used for waveguide films. The proposed method makes it possible to measure the center wavelength, bandwidth, extinction ratio, and polarization dependence of the coupler during fabrication procedure. The wavelength sensitivity increased with refractive index of polymer. The symmetric planar waveguide structure and isotropic property of guiding materials reduced polarization dependent property. Insertion loss of the coupler was less than 0.5dB. It is expected that our measurement method is useful for developing various optical devices using evanescent coupling between polished fiber and planar waveguide such as optical modulators and filters etc.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.535-537
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• 2003

We propose a rigorous 2D approximation technique for the 3D waveguide structures; it can minimize the well-known approximation errors of the commonly used effective index method. The main concept of the proposed technique is to compensate for the effective cladding index in the equivalent slab model of the original channel waveguide from the modal effective index calculated by the nonuniform 2D finite difference method. With simulations, we used the proposed technique to calculate the coupling characteristics of a directional coupler by the 2D beam propagation method, and the results were almost exactly the same as the results calculated by the 3D beam propagation method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.2526-2532
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• 1996

In this paper, the efficient algorithm for design of waveguide grating router(WGR) composed of star couplers is proposed. It is well demostrated that a star coupler design can be easily adjusted to the optimumstate using the proposed design method, which analyzes relations between various parameters. This method enables designers to estimate the spectral properties of waveguide grating router at the initial design level of the star coupler. A 5*5 WGR with 2.75nm(343GHz) channel spacing is designed using the proposed scheme. The BPM(Beam Propagation Method) simulation results show that the channel spacing of the WGR agrees very well with the design, the excess loss is smaller than 2.5dB, and the crosstalk is less than -21dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1986.10a
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• pp.20-22
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• 1986

This paper represents a graphical design technique of the symmetrical dielectric waveguids couplers. Once the phase constants are given by a approzimate model analysis, coupling lengths are easily calculated for each coupler. These method give some new insight of the codirectional couplers.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.123-128
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• 2016

In this paper, an inversely tapered coupler with Bragg reflectors is reported for the first time. With appropriately positioned reflecting structures, our fiber-to-chip coupler can more efficiently transmit the light from fiber to a waveguide in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). A numerical simulation evaluated the coupler's efficiency with the reflector. Optimized parameters that maximize the efficiency of the coupler are also investigated. Simulation results show that the reflector with appropriate parameters enhances efficiency by up to 7 dB. Likewise, Bragg metal reflectors implemented by the conventional metallization process can also improve efficiency. It is also shown that the proposed reflector enhances the coupling efficiency in a double-tip taper coupler.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.503-510
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• 2004

We propose a novel vertical directional coupler switch using a vertical directional coupler with polarization independent coupling lengths employing the doublesided deep-ridge waveguide structure. This switch is composed of a switching operation induced section with symmetric structures and an extinction ratio enhanced section with asymmetric structures. We present design methods and examples for this switch with very short lengths and very high extinction ratios larger than 30 dB for both TE and TM modes in cases of both cross and bar states.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.185-188
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• 1998

A three-waveguide coupler consisted of a central guide and two side guides is theoretically explored by using modal transmission-line theory. The numerical results reveal that the coupling length Lc is different from that calculated by coupled-mode theory and the difference increases gradually as the guiding modes increase.