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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2005
Corrado Pietro Dragone, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Corrado Pietro Dragone, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
An optical interconnection apparatus including waveguide arrays such as waveguide lenses, waveguide gratings and star couplers, has improved efficiency realized using a periodic array combined with an arrangement of matching sections. The array is connected to a slab region containing the array focal point and the purpose of the matching sections is to minimize unwanted radiation by the array outside the central zone of the array. This unwanted radiation is primarily caused by two particular unwanted modes excited at the array junction with the slab, and the resulting loss is minimized by properly choosing the average phase shift applied by each section to said unwanted modes.