POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLER SWITCH USING WEIGHTED COUPLING

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ALFERNESS, RC
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[1] Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel
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10.1063/1.90955
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report the first demonstration of a guided-wave polarization-independent electro-optic switch. Using a specially designed weighted Ti-diffused directional coupler with stepped electrodes, we have achieved crosstalk levels below -23 dB for both switch states for arbitrary incident optical polarization.
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