An elastomeric grating coupler fabricated by the replica molding technique is used to measure the modal indices of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) planar waveguide structure. Because of the van der Waals interaction between the grating mold and the waveguide, the elastomeric stamp makes conformal contact with the waveguide surface, inducing a periodic index perturbation at the contact region. The ...

Slotted waveguide antennas (SWA) are often employed in radar applications where design specifications commonly require high gains and mechanical robustness. Since the peak power transmitted by radar antennas is usually very high, waveguide antennas present a practical alternative to planar arrays. While numerous design references and guidelines exist for planar arrays, there are far fewer for s...

Traditional silicon waveguides are defined by waveguide trenches on either side of the high-index silicon core that leads to fluid leakage orifices for over-layed microfluidic channels. Closing the orifices needs additional fabrication steps which may include oxide deposition and planarization. We experimentally demonstrated a new type of microfluidic channel design with ultralow-loss waveguide...

In this Letter we introduce a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible low-loss Si3N4 waveguide platform for nonlinear integrated optics. The waveguide has a moderate nonlinear coefficient of 285  W/km, but the achieved propagation loss of only 0.06  dB/cm and the ability to handle high optical power facilitate an optimal waveguide length for wavelength co...

Larger width of P-cladding layer in p-i-n waveguide of traveling wave electroabsorption modulator (TWEAM) results in lower resistance and microwave propagation loss which provides an enhanced high speed electro-optical response. In this paper, a fullvectorial finite-difference-based optical mode solver is presented to analyze mushroom-type TWEAM for the first time. In this analysis, the discont...

We demonstrate the existence of an unusual and useful high-brightness guided mode of a multimode AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure compound slab waveguide. This mode has a narrow near-field single lobe confined to the low-index regions of the waveguide. This mode was selectively probed by optically exciting quantum wells optimally placed in the waveguide. By pumping in a stripe geometry, lasing is ob...

The performance of a chirped waveguide grating as a wavelength demultiplexer has been investigated. Considerations include TE-‘LX, TE-TM and TM-TM mode coupling for different incident angles and waveguide parameters. The spectral response of the chirped sinusoidal surface relief grating in the optical waveguide has been studied by means of Local Normal Mode Expansion (LNME) theory to account fo...

A depressed cladding waveguide with record low loss of 0.12 dB/cm is inscribed in YAG:Nd(0.3at.%) crystal by femtosecond laser pulses with an elliptical beam waist. The waveguide is formed by a set of parallel tracks which constitute the depressed cladding. It is a key element for compact and efficient CW waveguide laser operating at 1064 nm and pumped by a multimode laser diode. Special attent...

Millimeter-wave technologies are expected to realize broadband high-speed wireless communication systems for home server and HD video transmission. Multi-layer substrate such as LTCC configuration is well-known to integrate many RF-circuits into small area of the substrate [1]. We have already been developed broadband microstrip-to-waveguide transitions composed of a substrate and metal parts [...

We report on the first demonstration of a fully suspended 10 m Fabry-Perot cavity incorporating a waveguide grating as the coupling mirror. The cavity was kept on resonance by reading out the length fluctuations via the Pound-Drever-Hall method and employing feedback to the laser frequency. From the achieved finesse of 790 the grating reflectivity was determined to exceed 99.2% at the laser wav...