WO1992021047A1 - Method of connecting optical waveguide to optical fiber - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for connecting an optical waveguide and an optical fiber in an optical communication system.
- an optical waveguide element is used as an optical component.
- This optical waveguide element is roughly divided into, for example, an optical waveguide formed by depositing silica glass having a different refractive index on an Si substrate, or a special optical element made of GaAs, LiN, or the like.
- An optical waveguide is formed by laminating semiconductor thin films of various compositions on a simple semiconductor substrate.
- optical fibers are connected to these optical waveguides to input and output light. There is a need to. That is, it is necessary to align and connect the optical waveguide pattern and the optical fiber to each other.
- This connection method includes, for example, the following method. This method will be described for a case where a 1 ⁇ 8 splitter chip of a silica-based optical waveguide is connected to an optical fiber.
- a 1 ⁇ 8 splitter chip 12 having an input / output optical waveguide 11 formed on a silicon substrate 10 as shown in FIG. It is fixed in a gutter-shaped metal casing 13 by bonding, and annealed to form an optical waveguide component.
- the chip 12 of this optical waveguide component and one optical fiber 14 are inserted, and the input-side optical fiber connector 1 which can be moved with six degrees of freedom. 5 is matched with one end face 13 a of the casing 13.
- the input side optical fiber connector 15 is appropriately moved, light is emitted from the optical fiber 14 by human being, and each output waveguide 11 1 of the chip 12 is moved.
- the input optical waveguide 11 and the core of the optical fiber 14 are axially aligned and connected using a YAG laser or an adhesive.
- the output optical fiber connector 16 in which eight optical fibers 14 are fixed in parallel with the pitch between the output optical waveguides 11 of the chip 12 is connected. Match with one end face 1 3b of casing 13.
- the output side optical fiber connector 16 is appropriately moved with six degrees of freedom, light is incident from the optical fiber 14, and the output from the eight optical fibers is output.
- the output optical waveguide 11 and the core of the optical fiber 14 are axially aligned and connected using a YAG laser or an adhesive. In this way, the optical waveguide and the optical fiber are connected.
- connection method there is no reference for aligning the optical waveguide formed in the optical waveguide element and the optical fiber inserted in the optical fiber connector with each other, and the optical fiber is merely an optical fiber.
- Light is introduced into the device, and only the state of the presence or absence of axis misalignment is determined based on the intensity of the output light at that time, and the connection reliability is low.
- at least one hour of work time is required for one connection to position the casing end face and the optical fiber connector and connect them, so mass production is required. Can't respond.
- extremely expensive positioning and fixing devices are required.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a method for connecting an optical waveguide and an optical fiber which can align and connect the optical waveguide and the optical fiber very simply and in a short time without using an expensive positioning and fixing device. It is to be.
- the purpose is to form an optical waveguide and a marker on the optical waveguide substrate at the same time when patterning the optical waveguide by photolithography, and to form a cladding layer in the area other than the marker to form the optical waveguide.
- the optical waveguide module is connected to the optical fiber by connecting the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector using the mating pin groove with the marker as the position reference. Is achieved by:
- 1 (A) to 1 (F) are explanatory diagrams showing a conventional optical waveguide and optical fiber connection process
- FIGS. 2 (A) to 2 (E) are explanatory views showing steps of manufacturing an optical waveguide chip used in the method of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of the optical fiber core used in the method of the present invention
- (B) is a front view of the optical fiber core shown in (A)
- (C) is (A).
- 4 (A), (C) and ( ⁇ ) are plan views of a connecting portion for explaining the connecting method of the present invention
- FIGS. 4 ( ⁇ ), (D) and (F) are FIGS. ⁇ ), (C), side view of the connecting portion shown in ( ⁇ )
- FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a 1 XS tree split optical waveguide chip according to the present invention
- FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line ⁇ — ⁇ in FIG. 5,
- FIG. 7 is a plan view of a 1 ⁇ 8 release splitter optical waveguide chip subjected to V-groove processing according to the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a side view of the optical waveguide chip from the emission end face side shown in FIG. 7,
- FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a lower substrate of the optical waveguide module according to the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a side view of the optical waveguide module according to the present invention viewed from the exit end face side
- FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing an optical fiber connector according to the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a plan view and a side view showing a state of connection by the method according to the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a top view showing an optical waveguide substrate after forming a waveguide core and a marker in a manufacturing process of the optical waveguide module according to one embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view of the optical waveguide substrate of FIG. 13,
- FIG. 15 is a top view of the optical waveguide substrate showing an embedded region of the optical waveguide substrate
- FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view showing the optical waveguide substrate after forming the V-groove
- FIG. 17 is a sectional view showing an assembled state of the optical waveguide module
- FIG. 18 is a sectional view showing a connected state of the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber
- FIG. 19 is a perspective view showing an optical fiber connector manufactured by plastic molding according to the present invention.
- an optical waveguide chip is manufactured as follows.
- S i 0 2 layers 2 1 As shown in FIG. 2 (A), to form a S i 0 2 layers 2 1 as a lower clad layer by a flame sedimentary method on silicon substrate 2 0. As shown in FIG. 2 (B), S i 0 2 layers 2 1 and the optical waveguide materials on S i 0 2 + T i 0 2 a was coated by a flame hydrolysis deposition optical waveguide layer 2 Form 2.
- a substrate material besides silicon, ceramic, semiconductor material, glass and the like can be used.
- This optical waveguide layer 22 is patterned by a normal photolithography method to form an optical waveguide circuit (planar lightwave circuit) 23 and a marker 24 as shown in FIG. 2 (C). did. That is, a resist layer (not shown) is formed on the optical waveguide layer 22, etched using a mask corresponding to the optical waveguide circuit 23 and the marker 24, and then the resist layer is removed.
- a resist layer (not shown) is formed on the optical waveguide layer 22, etched using a mask corresponding to the optical waveguide circuit 23 and the marker 24, and then the resist layer is removed.
- an optical fiber core which is an optical fiber block, is manufactured.
- a plate made of a silicon single crystal is precisely processed so that its surface and bottom surface are parallel to each other to form a substrate.
- this substrate 30 The optical fiber V-groove 31 and the marker V-groove 32 are formed.
- the V-grooves 31 for each optical fiber are positioned so that the core portion 34 of the optical fiber 33 placed in the groove 31 and the optical waveguide circuit 23 of the optical waveguide chip can be aligned. That is, it is formed so that the interval Yl between the core portions 34 and the interval between the centers of the optical waveguide circuits 23 are the same.
- the marker V-groove 32 is positioned so that it can be aligned with the marker 24 of the optical waveguide chip, that is, the distance between the core 34 and the center of the marker V-groove 32 ⁇ 2 and the waveguide circuit 2
- the distance between the center of 3 and the center of the marker 14 is formed to be the same.
- the optical fiber 33 is placed on the optical fiber V-groove 31 of the substrate 30 on which the optical fiber V-groove 31 and the marker V-groove 32 are formed, and the optical fiber V-groove 3 1
- the optical fiber pressing plate 35 is set on the region including the above to produce the optical fiber core 2.
- an example of connection between the optical waveguide chip 1 and the core 2 for an optical fiber as shown in FIGS. 4 ( ⁇ ) and ( ⁇ ) will be described.
- an optical waveguide chip was placed on a support plate 40 whose surface was flattened. Step 1 and core 2 for optical fiber are installed. At this time, the optical waveguide chip 1 or the optical fiber core 2 may be fixed to the support plate 40 using an adhesive or the like.
- connection end face of the optical waveguide chip 1 and the connection end face of the optical fiber core (block) 2 are abutted. Is applied in the direction of the arrow, and the optical fiber core 2 is moved in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 4 (C) while pressing the optical waveguide chip 1 and the optical fiber core 2 on the support plate 40. . This operation is performed until the center of the marker 124 of the optical waveguide chip 1 and the center of the marker V groove 32 of the optical fiber core 2 are aligned. After the alignment of the optical waveguide circuit 23 of the optical waveguide chip 1 with the core portion 34 of the optical fiber 33 placed on the optical fiber core 2 is completed in this manner, FIG. 2) and (F), the optical waveguide chip 1 and the optical fiber core 2 are fixed on the support plate 40 with an adhesive or the like. Note that the support plate 40 may be removed after the optical waveguide chip 1 and the optical fiber core 2 are connected and fixed.
- a quartz lath is formed on the surface of a 3-inch silicon substrate 50 having a thickness of 1 mm by a flame deposition method.
- a lower cladding layer 51 was formed. This was formed into a three-dimensional waveguide structure as shown in Fig. 5 by photolithography and semiconductor microfabrication technology by dry etching.
- S optical waveguide circuits 52 and two sets of V-groove markers 53 were simultaneously formed on the silicon substrate 50.
- the V-groove marker 53 serves as a reference for the position and height when processing a V-groove described later.
- the upper cladding layer 55 was formed by a flame deposition method so that only the optical waveguide circuit 52 was embedded.
- the V-groove marker 53 was not embedded as a reference when processing the V-groove.
- a method of not embedding a specific portion in this way for example, a method of covering the specific portion with a mask such as a silicon plate and performing flame deposition.
- 54 in the figure indicates the center of the V-groove to be cut later.
- the optical waveguide circuit 52 has a combination of Y-branches, and has a 1 ⁇ 8 tree splitter structure in which one input optical waveguide 56 is branched into eight output optical waveguides 57. Have. Eight of these were continuously formed on a silicon substrate 50. The eight output optical waveguides 57 in the emission part were formed so as to be arranged parallel to each other at 250 intervals. As shown in Fig. 6, the structure of the optical waveguide circuit was such that the outer diameter of the core 58 was 8 m square, the relative refractive index difference was 0.3%, and it was compatible with single mode fiber. .
- the V-groove marker 53 has, for example, two lines 53 a and 53 b each having a width of 10 m and a length of 3 O ram, and a width 3
- a line 53 c with a length of 20 mni and a length of 20 mni were arranged in parallel at an interval of 10 m.As shown in FIG. 5, this set was formed on both sides of eight optical waveguide circuits 52. .
- the silicon substrate 50 was fixed by a vacuum chuck, and this was subjected to a cutting process using a slicer or the like to form a substantially V-shaped groove (hereinafter abbreviated as a V groove).
- a V groove substantially V-shaped groove
- the positioning of the V-groove 59 and the optical waveguides 56 and 57 is performed by using a V-groove marker 53 provided on the silicon substrate 50 in advance as a reference, for example, by image processing using a CCD camera.
- the position was confirmed, and the height of the upper surface of the core 58 was confirmed with a capacitance displacement meter.
- the shape of the V-groove 59 formed by cutting has a V-section angle (bottom angle) of about 60 ° and a depth of about 700 ⁇ m. As shown in FIG. 8, when the fitting pin 61 having a diameter of 0.7 ran is fitted, the V groove 59
- the center of 58 and the center of the fitting pin 61 were set at the same height.
- Two V-grooves 59 were formed with the optical waveguides 56 and 57 sandwiched between them, with a distance of 4.6 between them.
- the silicon substrate 50 was cut into eight chips by a dicing tool, and a lower substrate 60 on which V-grooves 59 and optical waveguides 56 and 57 were formed was fabricated.
- the shape of this chip was 6.4 mm in width and 5 Oram in length.
- the tip shape was 6.4 ⁇ wide and 50 ram long.
- the lower substrate 60 is fixed to the fixing base 66 by bonding, and then four substrate fixing pins 64 having a length of 8 and a diameter of 0.7 are connected to each V of the lower substrate 60. It was placed on groove 59. At this time, the mounting was performed so that the center in the length direction of the substrate fixing pin 64 was located at a distance of 12 from each of both end surfaces 60a and 60b of the silicon substrate.
- the holding cover 62 is placed on the lower substrate 60, and the lower substrate 60 and the holding cover 62 are clamped by the clamp spring 65 and fixed by bonding, and the optical waveguide module 4 is mounted. Produced.
- the optical fiber connector was fabricated as follows.
- a lower substrate 70 made of ceramic is cut by a slicer to form an optical fiber V-groove 71 for accommodating an optical fiber and a V-groove 71 for an optical fiber.
- V-shaped grooves 72 for mating pins into which the mating pins 61 were inserted were formed on both sides.
- the center positions of the optical fiber V-groove 71 and the mating pin V-groove 72 were set to correspond to the center positions of the core 58 and the V-groove 59 on the end surface 60b of the lower substrate 60, respectively.
- the shape of the optical fiber groove 71 formed by the cutting process was such that the angle of the V portion was 60 ° and the width was.
- the pitch of the optical fiber V-groove 71 was set to 250 m.
- the shape of the V-groove 72 for the fitting pin was such that the angle of the V portion was about 60 ° and the depth was about 700 m.
- the center of the core of each optical fiber 73 described later and the center of the fitting pin 61 have the same height.
- Two V-grooves 72 for the fitting pin were formed with the V-groove 71 for each optical fiber interposed therebetween and the distance between them was 4.6 mm.
- the holding cover 74 for the optical fiber connector also has two substantially trapezoidal grooves 7 for cutting the ceramic substrate and holding the upper surface of the fitting pin 61 in the same manner as the holding cover 62. This was prepared by forming
- a ribbon-shaped 8-core single-mode fiber 73 with a fiber outer diameter of 125 m and a pitch of 250 m is placed on the optical fiber V-groove 71 of the lower substrate 70, and a holding lid 7 4 was placed on the lower substrate 70, held down, and fixed with an epoxy adhesive.
- the end face 70a was mirror-finished by polishing to produce an optical fiber connector 5.
- a single-fiber optical fiber connector connected to the output end face 60b of the optical waveguide module 4 was manufactured in the same manner.
- the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector are each inserted by inserting a fitting pin. Position, so that the positional relationship between the optical waveguide and the guide groove formed on the lower substrate exactly matches the positional relationship between the optical fiber and the guide groove or the guide hole in the optical fiber connector. Can be done. This makes it possible to connect the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector very easily and in a short time. Further, in this embodiment, the optical waveguide element and the optical fiber connector are detachable from each other, whereby each optical waveguide module on which the optical waveguide of a different pattern is formed can be exchanged for the optical fiber connector without alignment. Can be connected o
- connection loss was evaluated by performing a connection test between the optical waveguide device manufactured according to the present embodiment and the optical fiber connector.
- the connection loss was 0.5 dB on average and 1 dB at maximum. It was confirmed that the axis deviation between the optical fiber and the optical fiber was suppressed to a small level, and that the two could be connected with low loss.
- a slab waveguide was manufactured by forming a lower cladding layer 81 and a core layer on a silicon substrate 80 by a flame deposition method.
- the core layer was patterned by photolithography and dry etching to form a waveguide core 82 and a marker 83.
- Four waveguide cores 82 were formed on the substrate, and two markers 83 were formed on both sides of the waveguide core 82, for a total of eight.
- FIG. 13 (B) a band-like marker having a width of 2.5 mm and a length of 50 min is formed on both sides of the marker.
- the photomask used for trilithography has both a waveguide core pattern and a marker pattern.
- the upper cladding layer 84 was laminated on the buried region on the waveguide core 82 as shown in FIGS. 15 (A) and (B), and the waveguide core 82 was buried.
- the marker 83 was used for positioning at the time of forming the V-shaped groove later, so that the upper clad layer 84 was not laminated on a part thereof. This can be realized, for example, by laminating the upper clad layer by a flame deposition method with a part of the marker 83 covered with a silicon plate or the like.
- the silicon substrate 80 was cut by a slicer to form a V-shaped groove 85.
- the center position of the V groove 85 is aligned with the center position of each marker, and the depth of the V groove 85 is set so that the center of the marker 83 matches the center of the fitting pin 86 inserted into the V groove 85. It was adjusted.
- each optical waveguide was cut by a dicing source to obtain a plurality of optical waveguide elements 6.
- the fitting optical waveguide module 7 was manufactured by fixing with a panel 88 or bonding with an adhesive.
- both end surfaces 60a and 60b were polished and fixed to the fixing base 66 by bonding.
- the four fitting pins 61 are placed in the V-groove 59 so that the center height of the optical waveguides 56, 57 at the end faces is located at the center height of the optical waveguides 56, 57, and the V-groove is placed thereon. While pressurizing the two surfaces 59 and the fitting pins 61 so as to be in close contact with each other, the fitting pins 61 were fixed to the lower substrate 6 ** with a bonding agent to produce the optical waveguide module 4.
- the optical fiber connector 5 is positioned while being fitted to the fitting pin 61, and is brought into contact with both end faces of the optical waveguide module 4, and further, an adhesive is applied to the mating interface, and the optical waveguide module 4 and the optical fiber are connected.
- the adhesive was cured by heat while pressurizing the connector 5 and the two were connected.
- connection loss was examined by a connection test between the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector according to the present example, the average loss was 0.5 dB and the maximum loss was 1 dB, confirming that connection between the two was possible. was done.
- an optical fiber connector and a holding lid for an optical waveguide were manufactured using crystallized glass that transmits 20% or more of light in a wavelength range of 350 to 450 nm.
- the adhesive to be applied to the butted interface should be UV-curable and have a refractive index of 1,456, which is close to that of quartz glass, in order to reduce Fresnel reflection at the butted interface. It was cured by irradiating ultraviolet light from above.
- the temperature was found to be 110 ° C to 60 ° C.
- the loss variation was less than 0.2 dB soil. Therefore, it was confirmed that the loss fluctuation when the optical fiber connector made of ceramic was used was 0.5 dB or more, which was greatly improved.
- the linear expansion coefficient of silicon is about 2 X 10 _6 Z ° C
- the linear expansion coefficient of ceramic is about 10 X 10 _ 6 Z
- the pitch of the V-groove for the fitting pin is shifted by about 1 zm at the connection end face at high and low temperatures due to the difference in thermal expansion coefficient.
- the optical waveguide module or the optical fiber connector is warped, thereby causing a loss due to the irregularity. Therefore, it is probable that the loss fluctuation was reduced because the material of the optical waveguide module and the material of the optical fiber connector were the same.
- the loss fluctuation mainly depends on the difference in linear expansion coefficient between the materials of the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector. Therefore, when the pitch of the V-groove 72 is about 4.6 mm, the difference between the linear expansion coefficients of the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector is 7 ⁇ 10 _D Z. With C, fluctuations in loss at high and low temperatures can be kept low.
- an optical fiber connector manufactured by plastic molding was used instead of the optical fiber connector made of ceramic shown in the second embodiment.
- This optical fiber connector is the same as the one usually used as a multi-core fiber connector, and can be mass-produced at a lower cost compared to the above-mentioned groove forming by cutting using a slicer. Noh. Also in the case of the present embodiment, the connection loss was an average of 0.5 dB per location and a maximum of 1 dB, and it was confirmed that connection between the two was possible.
- an optical waveguide module was formed using the same material as the optical waveguide module shown in the second embodiment.
- the fitting pins were fixed to both the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector with epoxy adhesive. This makes it impossible to attach / detach the optical waveguide module to / from the optical fiber connector, but it has been confirmed that fluctuations in optical output due to external factors such as vibration can be kept to a very small level of less than 0.02 dB.
- a marker is formed without being embedded, and centering is performed using this marker as a position reference.
- the optical waveguide formed on the optical waveguide element and the guide groove, and the optical fiber in the optical fiber connector and the guide groove or the guide hole are accurately matched to each other and processed.
- the waveguide and optical fiber are connected with high accuracy without alignment. As a result, assembly time is greatly reduced. Since the marker is not embedded, it is visible and the marker can be easily used as a position reference.
- optical connection can be made with low loss.
- the optical waveguide component accommodating the optical waveguide element and the optical fiber connector can be positioned by inserting a mating pin, the optical waveguide component and the optical fiber connector are interchangeable.
- the optical waveguide component itself can be used as a kind of detachable connector. Therefore, according to the method of the present invention, the conventional optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector are semi-permanently fixed with an adhesive or the like, and the optical fiber extending from the optical waveguide component in a pigtail shape and the optical fiber of another component are provided.
- the connection loss can be reduced and the extra storage space of the connection portion can be reduced, as compared with a method of connecting the connection by fusion splicing or the like.
- the method of the present invention by making the difference between the linear expansion coefficients of the materials of the optical waveguide module and the optical fiber connector equal to or less than a certain value, loss fluctuation at high and low temperatures can be suppressed.
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