AU2001296400A1 - Optical component having a waveguide - Google Patents

Optical component having a waveguide

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Publication number
AU2001296400A1
AU2001296400A1 AU2001296400A AU9640001A AU2001296400A1 AU 2001296400 A1 AU2001296400 A1 AU 2001296400A1 AU 2001296400 A AU2001296400 A AU 2001296400A AU 9640001 A AU9640001 A AU 9640001A AU 2001296400 A1 AU2001296400 A1 AU 2001296400A1
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Australia
Prior art keywords
waveguide
optical component
optical
component
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Abandoned
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AU2001296400A
Inventor
Wenhua Lin
Chi Wu
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Lightcross Inc
Original Assignee
Lightcross Inc
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Publication date
Priority claimed from US09/784,636 external-priority patent/US20020041748A1/en
Priority claimed from US09/784,814 external-priority patent/US20020064358A1/en
Priority claimed from US09/821,822 external-priority patent/US20020041739A1/en
Application filed by Lightcross Inc filed Critical Lightcross Inc
Publication of AU2001296400A1 publication Critical patent/AU2001296400A1/en
Abandoned legal-status Critical Current

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/30—Optical coupling means for use between fibre and thin-film device
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/10—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type
    • G02B6/12—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type of the integrated circuit kind
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/10—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type
    • G02B6/12—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type of the integrated circuit kind
    • G02B6/122—Basic optical elements, e.g. light-guiding paths
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/30—Optical coupling means for use between fibre and thin-film device
    • G02B6/305—Optical coupling means for use between fibre and thin-film device and having an integrated mode-size expanding section, e.g. tapered waveguide
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/10—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type
    • G02B6/12—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type of the integrated circuit kind
    • G02B2006/12083—Constructional arrangements
    • G02B2006/12097—Ridge, rib or the like
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/10—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type
    • G02B6/12—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type of the integrated circuit kind
    • G02B2006/12166—Manufacturing methods
    • G02B2006/12176—Etching
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/10—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type
    • G02B6/12—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type of the integrated circuit kind
    • G02B2006/12166—Manufacturing methods
    • G02B2006/12195—Tapering
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3628—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers
    • G02B6/3632—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers characterised by the cross-sectional shape of the mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3636—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers characterised by the cross-sectional shape of the mechanical coupling means the mechanical coupling means being grooves
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3628—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers
    • G02B6/3648—Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures
    • G02B6/3652—Supporting carriers of a microbench type, i.e. with micromachined additional mechanical structures the additional structures being prepositioning mounting areas, allowing only movement in one dimension, e.g. grooves, trenches or vias in the microbench surface, i.e. self aligning supporting carriers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
    • G02B6/3628—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers
    • G02B6/3684—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers characterised by the manufacturing process of surface profiling of the supporting carrier
    • G02B6/3692—Mechanical coupling means for mounting fibres to supporting carriers characterised by the manufacturing process of surface profiling of the supporting carrier with surface micromachining involving etching, e.g. wet or dry etching steps

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Optical Couplings Of Light Guides (AREA)
  • Optical Integrated Circuits (AREA)
AU2001296400A 2000-10-10 2001-09-28 Optical component having a waveguide Abandoned AU2001296400A1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (13)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US23953400P 2000-10-10 2000-10-10
US60/239,534 2000-10-10
US72376400A 2000-11-28 2000-11-28
US09/723,764 2000-11-28
US09/784,814 2001-02-15
US09/784,636 US20020041748A1 (en) 2000-10-10 2001-02-15 Component having a reduced thermal sensitivity
US09/784,636 2001-02-15
US09/784,814 US20020064358A1 (en) 2000-10-10 2001-02-15 Component having reduced cross talk
US09/821,822 2001-03-29
US09/821,822 US20020041739A1 (en) 2000-10-10 2001-03-29 Waveguide having light barrier that serves as alignment groove
US09/940,674 US20020048433A1 (en) 2000-10-10 2001-08-27 Optical component having a protected ridge
US09/940,674 2001-08-27
PCT/US2001/030510 WO2002031548A2 (en) 2000-10-10 2001-09-28 Optical component having a waveguide

Publications (1)

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AU2001296400A1 true AU2001296400A1 (en) 2002-04-22

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US (1) US20020048433A1 (en)
AU (1) AU2001296400A1 (en)
WO (1) WO2002031548A2 (en)

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JP2004287093A (en) * 2003-03-20 2004-10-14 Fujitsu Ltd Optical waveguide, optical device and method for manufacturing optical waveguide
EP1899755B1 (en) * 2005-07-07 2013-01-23 Nokia Corporation Manufacturing of optical waveguides by embossing grooves by rolling
US9766484B2 (en) * 2014-01-24 2017-09-19 Cisco Technology, Inc. Electro-optical modulator using waveguides with overlapping ridges
WO2015157645A1 (en) * 2014-04-11 2015-10-15 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Suspended ridge oxide waveguide
JP7196736B2 (en) * 2019-03-29 2022-12-27 住友大阪セメント株式会社 Optical waveguide element and optical waveguide device

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US3563630A (en) * 1966-12-07 1971-02-16 North American Rockwell Rectangular dielectric optical wave-guide of width about one-half wave-length of the transmitted light
US3893231A (en) * 1974-12-19 1975-07-08 Us Navy Technique for fabricating vacuum waveguide in the x-ray region
US5163118A (en) * 1986-11-10 1992-11-10 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force Lattice mismatched hetrostructure optical waveguide
DE19653094A1 (en) * 1996-12-20 1998-06-25 Alsthom Cge Alcatel Photonic component with electrical conductor tracks
JPH1164657A (en) * 1997-08-25 1999-03-05 Hitachi Cable Ltd Branching waveguide and production therefor
JP3496829B2 (en) * 1998-10-15 2004-02-16 インターナショナル・ビジネス・マシーンズ・コーポレーション Optical waveguide device

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