IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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Proposal of total-internal-reflection optical switch with slowing light in Bragg reflector waveguide
Ayumi FuchidaFumio Koyama
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2008 Volume 5 Issue 9 Pages 349-353

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We propose a total-internal-reflection optical switch with a Bragg reflector waveguide. Slowing light in a Bragg reflector waveguide gives us an extremely large change in the equivalent refractive index of the waveguide, which is increased by a factor of more than 10 near a cut-off wavelength. Slowing light is caused by the giant waveguide dispersion of a Bragg reflector waveguide. The proposed structure enables a large bending angle of over 40 degrees even for reasonable refractive index changes of waveguide materials. The calculated result shows a possibility of large-scale and compact cross-bar waveguide optical switches.

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