PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical device, including a substrate having a thermal matching boundary and a waveguide structure. ;SOLUTION: This optical device is so formed as to include the doped silica substrate 20 having a coefft. of thermal expansion of 8×10-7 to 15×10-7°C-1. The doped silica waveguide structure 30 having the coefft. of thermal expansion of 8×10-7 to 15×10-7°C-1 is formed on the substrate. A clad layer 40 is formed on the doped silica wavelength structure. The coefft. of thermal expansion of the doped silica substrate is selected at about 90 to 110% of the coefft. of thermal expansion of the doped silica waveguide structure. As another characteristic, the optical device, including the doped silica substrate having a doping gradient from the lower surface to the upper surface, is embodied. The doping level at the upper surface has the coefft. of thermal expansion nearly equal to the coefft. of thermal expansion of the doped silica substrate formed thereon.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO
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