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Coupling Between Waveguides

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The phenomenon of optical tunneling can be used not only to couple energy from a fiber or a beam to a waveguide, as described in Chap. 6, but also to couple one waveguide to another. Couplers of this type are usually called directional couplers because the energy is transferred in a coherent fashion so that the direction of propagation is maintained. Directional couplers have been fabricated in two basic geometries: multilayer planar structures, and dual side-by-side channel waveguides.

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Hunsperger, R.G. (1982). Coupling Between Waveguides. In: Integrated Optics: Theory and Technology. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13521-1_7

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