FABRICATION OF SUBMILLIMETER-RADIUS OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDE BENDS WITH ANISOTROPIC AND ISOTROPIC WET CHEMICAL ETCHANTS

被引:7
作者
SETO, M
DERI, RJ
YIYAN, A
COLAS, E
TOMLINSON, WJ
BHAT, R
SHAHAR, A
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[1] Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ 07701
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10.1109/50.47881
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Wet chemical etchants suitable for making GaAs/AIGaAs single-mode optical waveguide bends with radii as low as 300 µm for excess bend losses of 1 dB/90° and propagation losses as low as 1 dB/cm at λ = 1.5 µm are described. Additional bend losses due to modal mismatch resulting from etchant anisotropy are investigated and it is shown that in many cases such anisotropy does not limit bend performance. © 1990, IEEE
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