Low bend loss waveguides enable compact, efficient 3D photonic chips

Alexander Arriola; Simon Gross; Nemanja Jovanovic; Ned Charles; Peter G. Tuthill; Santiago M. Olaizola; Alexander Fuerbach; Michael J. Withford

doi:10.1364/OE.21.002978

Low bend loss waveguides enable compact, efficient 3D photonic chips

Alexander Arriola^*, Simon Gross, Nemanja Jovanovic, Ned Charles, Peter G. Tuthill, Santiago M. Olaizola, Alexander Fuerbach, Michael J. Withford

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Abstract

We present a novel method to fabricate low bend loss femtosecond-laser written waveguides that exploits the differential thermal stabilities of laser induced refractive index modifications. The technique consists of a two-step process; the first involves fabricating large multimode waveguides, while the second step consists of a thermal postannealing process, which erases the outer ring of the refractive index profile, enabling single mode operation in the C-band. By using this procedure we report waveguides with sharp bends (down to 16.6 mm radius) and high (80%) normalized throughputs. This procedure was used to fabricate an efficient 3D, photonic device known as a "pupil- remapper" with negligible bend losses for the first time. The process will also allow for complex chips, based on 10's - 100's of waveguides to be realized in a compact foot print with short fabrication times.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2978-2986
Number of pages	9
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.002978
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2013

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