Self-organization Of Optical Waveguides Between Misaligned Devices Induced By Write-beam Reflection

摘要

In a reflective self-organized lightwave network (R-SOLNET), an optical waveguide and optical devices with reflective materials on their core facets are placed in a photo-refractive material, whose refractive index increases with write beam exposure. By introducing write beams from the waveguide, self-aligned waveguides are formed between them by the "pulling water" effect induced by the reflected write beams from the reflective materials. R-SOLNET was formed between an optical fiber and an Al micro-mirror with an angular misalignment of 3°, or an offset of 30 μm. Finite difference time domain calculations revealed that Y-branch R-SOLNET is formed by placing two reflective materials.