Novel design for power splitters in polymer materials

Angelika Stelmaszyk; Hans Strack; Werner F. Frank

doi:10.1117/12.251837

30 September 1996 Novel design for power splitters in polymer materials

Angelika Stelmaszyk, Hans Strack, Werner F. Frank

Proceedings Volume 2851, Photopolymer Device Physics, Chemistry, and Applications III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.251837
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

A new design for power splitters in transparent materials is presented. The common divider built with a cascade of Y- branches is replaced by a structure using the coupling of evanescent fields. This is demonstrated at the example of PMMA. It is structured using a photomask and UV-radiation in order to form the waveguides in the surface. The parameters of the material, especially the refractive index profile after UV-exposure, are fed into a computer simulation of the new design using beam propagation method software. The calculation leads to an optimum layout which is transformed to a photomask for the irradiation process. The theoretical as well as the experimental results are presented. A good agreement between calculation and measurement is obtained.

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Angelika Stelmaszyk, Hans Strack, and Werner F. Frank "Novel design for power splitters in polymer materials", Proc. SPIE 2851, Photopolymer Device Physics, Chemistry, and Applications III, (30 September 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.251837

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