we propose a new ring resonator side-coupled m-z interferometer all-optical switch throughthe pumped nonlinear directional coupler. by controlling pump power p to lead the coupler reflectivityr approaching to 1, the resonator finesse will be enhanced dramatically, and then the minimumswitching power in silica-based practice devices can be obtained. as a sample, we use a nonlinearcoupler made by...

Optical couplers are very important devices in optical communication systems and optical sensor systems. Several types of optical couplers with different materials or different transmission characteristics have been reported. Here we propose a semi-reciprocal polarization maintaining fibre coupler with unique transmission characteristics, which is distinct from conventional polarization maintai...

Recent progress in research on optical fiber devices, especially optical fiber couplers and optical fiber grating couplers, by a new fabrication method, that is, a CO2 laser irradiation method is reviewed. Furthermore, applications of optical fiber grating couplers are also described. Key-words: Optical Fiber Device, Optical Fiber Coupler, Optical Fiber Grating Coupler

in this paper a novel all-optical logic nand, nor and xor gate based on nonlinear directional coupler theory is demonstrated. we use the identical structure which contains three waveguides, for designing these gates; the only difference however, is the power of inputs light beam. in other words, while a beam with 4 w/μm in power considered as logical one, the output is nand gate and if a beam w...

The beam propagation method (BPM) used for the design of an integrated optical (IO) coupler was proposed in this paper. A modal of the IO coupler was set up in BeamPROP software that is based on the BPM, and then the modes and the bi-directional propagation in the proposed coupler were investigated. Finally, the structure and dimension of the coupler was determined.

It has recently been shown that shared cryptographic quan tum bits are achievable through the use of an optical coupler instead of polarised photons We show that such shared cryptographic bits can also be produced by using a di erent optical apparatus a beam splitter An important advantage of such a system is that it could be experimentally more feasible than an optical coupler

We propose an efficient optical coupler between a submicrometer-sized silicon waveguide on a silicon photonic chip and a multi-micrometer wide polymer waveguide on an optical printed circuit board for interchip optical networks. We show low coupling loss <0.4 dB with high lateral and angular tolerance to misalignment so that coupling can be done by automatic pick-and-place equipments with high ...

A theoretical formulism based on the boundary matching technique has been proposed to study the systematic of an asymmetric waveguide coupler. Same formulism is applicable to a symmetric coupler. The equivalent parallel coupling length to account for the coupling in the two S-shaped regions in the input and the output of the coupler is obtained from the coupler geometry and is dealt with more a...

A highly sensitive refractive index sensor with low detection limit based on an asymmetric optical microfiber coupler is proposed. It is composed of a silica optical microfiber and an As₂Se₃ optical microfiber. Due to the asymmetry of the microfiber materials, a single-notch transmission spectrum is demonstrated by the large refractive index difference between the two optical microfibers. Compa...

More than 60% overall coupling efficiency is achieved in the demonstrator of an optical interconnect comprising an input grating coupler, a multimode slab waveguide section and an output grating coupler. The grating coupling strength is enhanced by means of a leaky mode resonance. The efficiency of the resonant grating coupler compares favourably with the performancs reported on mirror inserts.