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15July2000

OpticsCommunications1812000317–321

Improvedapproachtolow-lossandhigh-uniformityMMIdevices

RuiYin,JianyiYang,XiaoqingJiang,JinLi,MinghuaWang

DepartmentofInformationScienceandElectronicsEngineering,ZhejiangUniersity,Hangzhou,Zhejiang310027,

Received21March2000;accepted24May2000

Improved

approachtolow-lossandhigh-uniformitymultimodeinterferenceMMIdevicesisproposedinthispaper.An

optimizedindexcontrastisselectedtodecreasethepropagationconstanterrorsofmodesnearcutoffintheMMIregion.

1NMMIsplittersareanalyzedbyexactmodeanalysis.Resultsshowthatthelossanduniformityofthisnewstructureare

notablyimproved,especiallywhenNislarge.Thelossof0.0892anduniformityof0.0826areacquiredwhenN32.A

formulatingapproachfordevice-designispresentedanditissuitableforalltypesofMMIcouplers.2000Elsevier

ScienceB.V.

PACS:78.20.e;78.20.Ci

Keywords:Multimodeinterference;Self-imaging

1.IntroductiontheMMIregion,socouplingcoefficientsofthose

guidedmodesnearcutoffstimulatedbytheinput

DevicesbasedonmultimodeinterferenceMMI,lightcannotbeignored.Inthispaperweanalyzethe

suchas1NandNNcouplers,areprimaryguidedmodesnearcutoff.Propagationconstanter-

componentsinthefieldofintegratedopticsand

rorsPCEofthesemodesaredecreasedbyproperly

opticalnetworks.Insertionlossanduniformityareselectingtheindexcontrast.1NMMIpowersplit-

theimportantparametersoftheMMIdevices.Theretersofsuchlow-index-contraststructureareana-

have