Slowing Light in Bragg Reflector Waveguide with Tilt Coupling Scheme
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Hirano, Go; Koyama, Fumio
- Source
- LEOS 2007 - IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE. :86-87 Oct, 2007
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Optical coupling
Optical waveguides
Slow light
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Optical modulation
Semiconductor waveguides
Optical propagation
Nonlinear optics
Stimulated emission
Optical devices
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
We investigate slowing light in Bragg reflector waveguides with a tilt coupling scheme between free-space propagation and slow guided mode. The optimization of incident angle and position of input light provides a low coupling loss of below 2 dB.