Integrated optical XY coupler

Patent · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:870944

Vawter, G Allen ^[1]; Hadley, G Ronald ^[1]

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1. Albuquerque, NM

An integrated optical XY coupler having two converging input waveguide arms meeting in a central section and a central output waveguide arm and two diverging flanking output waveguide arms emanating from the central section. In-phase light from the input arms constructively interfers in the central section to produce a single mode output in the central output arm with the rest of the light being collected in the flanking output arms. Crosstalk between devices on a substrate is minimized by this collection of the out-of-phase light by the flanking output arms of the XY coupler.

• Research Organization: AT & T CORP
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 5627929
• OSTI ID: 870944
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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