Abstract
Novel fluorinated hybrid sol-gel materials are developed which show internal losses <0.1dB/cm. Compact beam splitters are demonstrated exhibiting propagation losses <0.5dB/cm, power uniformity <1dB and coupling losses <1.5dB for commercialization of the sol-gel amplifying splitters.
© 2003 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
M.A. Fardad, Y. Zhang, W. Liang, B. Case, S. Jiang, and N. Peyghambarian
WD5 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2003
Y. Enami, G. Meredith, N. Peyghambarian, M. Kawazu, and A. K-Y. Jen
ThGG3 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2003
Oleg V. Mishechkin, Dong Lu, Hongxi Zhang, and Mahmoud Fallahi
ThGG5 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2003