Empirical Formulas For Designing Gap-Waveguide Hybrid Ring Coupler

Empirical Formulas for Designing Gap-Waveguide Hybrid Ring Coupler

A new type of hybrid ring coupler (or rat-race coupler) the gap-waveguide ring hybrid has been developed in this work. The advantages of the new gap-waveguide ring hybrid are low manufacturing cost since the good electrical contact between metal plates is not required, and lower transmission loss compared to microstrip line since there is no dielectric material needed. Therefore, the gap-wavegu...

Low loss coupler to interface silicon waveguide and hybrid plasmonic waveguide

A metallic coupler is proposed to interface a silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguide with a narrow hybrid plasmonic waveguide (200× 200 nm). The device operation is investigated and optimized to attain the best tradeoff between the mode confinement and the propagation loss. Calculations reveal that a high confinement and low loss of the energy is achieved from a silicon slab waveguide into the di...

Hybrid fiber resonator employing LRSPP waveguide coupler for gyroscope

Polarization error and temperature noise are two main limits to the performance of resonant fiber optic gyroscope (RFOG). To overcome these limits, we demonstrated a hybrid resonator consisting of a polymer-based long-range surface plasmon polariton (LRSPP) waveguide coupler and a silica fiber. Single-polarization property of LRSPP waveguide and the offsetting of the opposite thermo-optical cha...

Short-Slot Hybrid Coupler in Gap Waveguides at 38 GHz

All silicon waveguide spherical microcavity coupler device.

A coupler based on silicon spherical microcavities coupled to silicon waveguides for telecom wavelengths is presented. The light scattered by the microcavity is detected and analyzed as a function of the wavelength. The transmittance signal through the waveguide is strongly attenuated (up to 25 dB) at wavelengths corresponding to the Mie resonances of the microcavity. The coupling between the m...