In this work, a first report on fabricating an asymmetric Bragg coupler-based filter on polymeric waveguides without input-waveguide grating was revealed. The fabrication process we developed was using holographic interference techniques, capillary effect, soft lithography, and micro molding process. The transmission dip of about -9.2 dB and the 3 dB transmission bandwidth of about 0.125 nm wer...

The backreflection in commonly used grating couplers on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) is not negligible for many applications. This reflection is dramatically reduced in our improved compact grating coupler design, which directs the reflection away from the input waveguide. Realized devices on SOI show that the reflection can be reduced down to -50 dB without an apparent transmission penalty.

Resonator-based optical circulators are fundamentally bandwidth-limited by their quality factors. We propose a new type of circulator based on directional coupling between one-way photonic chiral edge states and conventional two-way waveguides. The operational bandwidth of such circulators is tied to the bandwidth of the directional waveguide coupler and has the potential for simultaneous broad...

We reports operating condition of a modified architecture of all-optical wavelength-selective switch controlled by a single light. Switching characteristics in a proposed circuit are analyzed with regard to their phase dependence. Keywordsoptical switch; asymmetric X-junction coupler; Raman amplifier; wavelength-selective; Integrated optics; Optical waveguide; Wide wavelength range

We present a vector modal solution for the evanescent coupler comprising an optical fiber and a slab waveguide. We identify the normal vector ridge modes of the device for different configurations. The dispersion characteristics and the power transmission properties of these modes are presented. Also, the effect of the proximity between the waveguides on the ridge modes is investigated.

Soft lithography molding is a promising technique for patterning polymer integrated optical devices, however the presence of a background residue has the potential to limit the usefulness of this technique. We present the soft lithography technique for fabricating polymer waveguides. Several effects of the background residue are investigated numerically, including the modal properties of an ind...

We introduce a photonic crystal waveguide-cavity system for controlling single-photon cavity quantum electrodynamics QED . Exploiting Bloch mode analysis and medium-dependent Green function techniques we demonstrate that the propagation of single photons can be accurately described analytically for integrated periodic waveguides with little more than four unit cells, including an output coupler...

We demonstrate a low-loss, optical four port resonant coupler (add-drop geometry), using ultrahigh Q (>10(8)) toroidal microcavities. Different regimes of operation are investigated by variation of coupling between resonator and fiber taper waveguides. As a result, waveguide-to-waveguide power transfer efficiency of 93% (0.3 dB loss) and nonresonant insertion loss of 0.02% (<0.001 dB) for narro...

Many photonic quantum information processing applications would benefit from a high brightness, fiber-coupled source of triggered single photons. Here, we present a fiber-coupled photonic-crystal waveguide single-photon source relying on evanescent coupling of the light field from a tapered out-coupler to an optical fiber. A two-step approach is taken where the performance of the tapered out-co...

We describe a design for a sideband-separating balanced mixer using four planar single-ended mixer chips connected to the feed horn and LO source by a network of quadrature waveguide hybrids and an in-phase waveguide power divider. The mixer has separate IF output ports for the downconverted signals from the upper and lower RF sidebands, and requires ~14 dB less LO power than a single-ended mix...