2 × 2 polymer thermo-optic digital optical switch using total-internal-reflection in bend-free waveguides

Young Tak Han; Jang Uk Shin; Sang Ho Park; Jun Kyu Seo; Hyung Jong Lee; Wol Yon Hwang; Hyo Hoon Park; Yongsoon Baek

doi:10.1109/LPT.2012.2210280

2 × 2 polymer thermo-optic digital optical switch using total-internal-reflection in bend-free waveguides

Young Tak Han^*
, Jang Uk Shin
, Sang Ho Park
, Jun Kyu Seo
, Hyung Jong Lee
, Wol Yon Hwang
, Hyo Hoon Park
, Yongsoon Baek

^*Corresponding author for this work

Division of Chemical Engineering

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
ChemOptics Inc.
Lightron Fiber-Optic Devices Inc.

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Abstract

We present a novel 2 × 2 polymer thermo-optic digital optical switch (DOS) using the total-internal-reflection (TIR) effect. The switch consists of four 1 × 2 TIR-DOSs cascaded with each other. These TIR-DOSs have two branched multimode waveguides and an offset heater electrode in the branched region. Our switch does not have any bent waveguides, and has tapered waveguides and single-mode waveguides only in the input-output fiber coupling region. The fabricated 2 × 2 TIR-DOSs exhibit excellent properties, with very low insertion losses of < 1.4 dB and switching isolations of > 50 dB in both turned-off and turned-on states.

Original language	English
Article number	6302243
Pages (from-to)	1757-1760
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2012.2210280
State	Published - 2012

Keywords

Bending
digital optical switch (DOS)
multimode
polymer
thermo-optic
total-internal-reflection (TIR)

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