ERROR ANALYSIS FOR REFRACTIVE-INDEX PROFILE DETERMINATION FROM NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS

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HELMS, J
SCHMIDTCHEN, J
SCHUPPERT, B
PETERMANN, K
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[1] Institut fur Hochfrequenztechnik, Technical University of Berlin, D-1000 Berlin 10
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10.1109/50.54467
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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
Refractive-index profiles of diflused optical waveguides can be determined by analyzing the near-field pattern of the waveguide. For this method, a computer simulation of measurement errors due to noise, quantization, defocusing, and nonlinearity of the camera system is presented by using data of a typical camera measurement system. The simulation procedure includes signal processing of the measured intensity profile by means of a cubic spline approximation in order to reduce the influence of the measurement system errors. The residual errors associated with this technique are on the order of a few percent when measuring typical Ti : LiNbO3 waveguides. © 1990 IEEE
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