IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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Beam steering and tilt coupling in tunable hollow waveguide
Akihiro ImamuraFumio Koyama
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2008 Volume 5 Issue 11 Pages 405-410

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We present the new function of tunable hollow waveguides with a variable air core. We show a possibility of wide-angle beam steering from the hollow waveguide and efficient tilt-coupling in narrow air core hollow waveguides. Wide-angle beam steering was demonstrated by calculation and preliminary experiment. In addition, a possibility of an efficient optical coupling with a narrow air core was presented by the tilt-coupling scheme. Input and output coupling losses are 2.5dB and 1dB for 1µm air core, respectively. Wide tunability in sub-wavelength air cores enables us to realize new functions of tunable hollow waveguides and circuits.

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