Glass waveguide structures for integrated optical gyro: design, fabrication, and testing

In the process of practical creation the complicate integrated optical devices which include many different components (straight and curve waveguides, couplers, ring resonators etc.) it is difficult to provide preliminary theoretical calculation of real topology including lengths, gaps, radiuses of curvature and so on. This paper presents a practical step-by-step process of design the glass integrated optical unit for IO guroscope in which the next step is based on results of previous. Some experimental results are given in last part although the general success was not be obtained.© (1999) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.