A strongly confined ridge waveguide that provides substantially reduced polarization sensitivity, without significant compromise for other waveguide characteristics such as, for example, single-mode condition, and low propagation and bending losses for the fundamental mode. The present invention considers waveguide material composition and thickness for guiding and cladding layers, bend radius, ridge width and etch depth at which the modal indices of the fundamental TE and TM modes are equal. With those parameters, the losses (e.g., the imaginary parts of the modal indices) of the fundamental and first-order modes may be calculated. By considering the previously mentioned criteria, a low-loss, single-mode ridge waveguide may be constructed in accordance with the present invention having losses of the fundamental modes in the range of less than approximately 1.0 dB/mm, and losses of higher-order modes in the range of greater than approximately 10 dB/mm (thus providing a loss difference of at least approximately 10 dB/mm).
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机译:坚固的脊形波导,可大幅降低极化灵敏度,而不会显着损害其他波导特性,例如单模条件,以及基本模的低传播和弯曲损耗。本发明考虑了在基本TE模式和TM模式的模态指数相等时的引导层和包层的波导材料组成和厚度,弯曲半径,脊宽和蚀刻深度。利用这些参数,可以计算基本模式和一阶模式的损耗(例如,模态指数的虚部)。通过考虑前面提到的标准,可以根据本发明构造低损耗,单模脊形波导,其基本模的损耗在小于大约1.0dB / mm的范围内,并且高阶损耗在大于约10 dB / mm的范围内(因此提供至少约10 dB / mm的损耗差)。
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