Integrated photonic building blocks for nextgeneration astronomical instrumentation I: The multimode waveguide

Nemanja Jovanovic; Izabela Spaleniak; Simon Gross; Michael Ireland; Jon S. Lawrence; Christopher Miese; Alexander Fuerbach; Michael J. Withford

doi:10.1364/OE.20.017029

Integrated photonic building blocks for nextgeneration astronomical instrumentation I: The multimode waveguide

Nemanja Jovanovic^*, Izabela Spaleniak, Simon Gross, Michael Ireland, Jon S. Lawrence, Christopher Miese, Alexander Fuerbach, Michael J. Withford

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We report on the fabrication and characterization of composite multimode waveguide structures that consist of a stack of single-mode waveguides fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription. We explore 2 types of composite structures; those that consist of overlapping single-mode waveguides which offer the maximum effective index contrast and nonoverlapped structures which support multiple modes via strong evanescent coupling. We demonstrate that both types of waveguides have negligible propagation losses (to within experimental uncertainty) for light injected with focal ratios >8, which corresponds to the cutoff of the waveguides. We also show that right below cutoff, there is a narrow region where the injected focal ratio is preserved (to within experimental uncertainty) at the output. Finally, we outline the major application of these highly efficient waveguides; in a device that is used to reformat the light in the focal plane of a telescope to a slit, in order to feed a diffraction-limited spectrograph.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17029-17043
Number of pages	15
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	20
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.017029
Publication status	Published - 16 Jul 2012

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