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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Tsjerk Hans Hoekstra, Edinburg, GB;
JDS Uniphase Inc., Nepean, US;
Abstract
The invention pertains to an optical waveguide component comprising a substrate, a core-matching refractive index lower cladding layer, a core layer, a core-matching refractive index upper cladding layer, a low refractive index upper cladding, wherein the core-matching refractive index lower cladding layer is deposited directly onto the substrate and has a thickness sufficient to avoid substantial capture and/or absorption by the substrate of a guided mode in the core layer, whereas slab modes, quasi-guided modes and/scattered light leak to the substrate. The components according to the invention allow high switching speeds and high confinement of a guided mode on the one hand and, on the other hand, absorption by the substrate of stray-light and radiation modes, which, in turn, leads to improved optical devices, such as optical switches with improved isolation.