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A scan of recent reviews of integrated optics1–4 or of a recent text book on this subject5, makes it apparent that coupled-wave devices play a major role in this new technology. The reason for this is that optical effects of interest are usually small over distances of the order of a wavelength. Coupled-wave phenomena extend over many wavelengths and can lead to a considerable enhancement of these effects. In integrated optics we encounter a large variety of coupled-wave phenomena and devices. In the following we propose to discuss a selection of these, including directional couplers, switched directional couplers, stepped Δβ couplers, bistable Δβ couplers, tunable coupler filters, the tunable Harris filter, electrooptic Bragg deflectors, acousto-optic Bragg deflectors, TE-TM mode converters, corrugated waveguide filters, distributed Bragg reflector lasers and distributed feedback lasers. The theoretical basis for the treatment of coupled-wave phenomena is the coupled-wave formalism which is summarized in References 6 and 7 and which is reviewed in this symposium by A. Yariv. This formalism provides expressions for the coupling constants of various devices which we will use for our discussion.
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Kogelnik, H. (1979). Coupled-Wave Devices. In: Ostrowsky, D.B. (eds) Fiber and Integrated Optics. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2937-4_12
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