Automated waveguide alignment and direct UV writing systems for integrated optical devices fabrication and characterization.

Author

• Tan Chin Chong, Universiti Malaya

Date of Award

2010

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Dissertation

Divisions

Faculty of Science

Department

Department of Physics

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

This dissertation reports the studies on the development of waveguide alignment techniques as well as the UV writing coding structures for optical circuitries through a programming platform, LabVIEW. In the first part of the work, 1-by-4 silica splitter was pigtailed with a single mode fiber which placed on a stepper motorized stage. The developed alignment techniques are image analysis for waveguide alignment, initial light seeking from interference fringes, manual alignment of launch fiber for waveguide’s input, and peak power detection. These waveguide alignment techniques covered from the search of input channel within waveguide to the performance test. While, in the part of developing UV writing coding architectures, two types of optical circuitries have been designed and transferred onto card which was placed on a stepper motorized stage. The designed optical circuitries are the simple 1-by-2 optical splitter and Mach Zehnder Interferometer. Each of the corresponding architecture was tested from the aspect of processing time at different driving speed.

Initial

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Additional Information

Dissertation (M.A.) – Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 2010.

Recommended Citation

Chin Chong, Tan, "Automated waveguide alignment and direct UV writing systems for integrated optical devices fabrication and characterization." (2010). Student Works (2010-2019). 28.
https://knova.um.edu.my/student_works_2010s/28

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