Volume B is devoted to light wave systems and system impairments and compensation.
Some of the topics include growth of the Internet, network architecture, undersea systems …

Research on waveguide modulators is now in a rather advanced stage, and the evolution to
application in such areas as optical communication and high-speed signal processing …

We review the current status of guided-wave optical communication devices. The operation
and presently demonstrated performance characteristics of waveguides switches …

Guided-wave devices demonstrated in lithium niobate have been seen for many years as
highly functional components for applications in fields such as optical communications and …

A novel polarization-beam splitter/switch with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer configuration
was fabricated using a silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) on a silicon substrate. The …

A glass waveguide polarization splitter for operation in the 1.3 mu m wavelength region is
reported. The device, which has a symmetric directional coupler configuration, exploits the …

The design of a single-section polarization splitter in a deeply etched semiconductor MMI
waveguide is presented. Numerically simulated results indicate that the semiconductor MMI …

In a monolithic heterodyne polarization diversity receiver, mode splitters which effectively
separate the TE and TM polarization of the optical wave are required. For this purpose, a …

2 Xu and Huang optics by Feit and Fleck in 1978 to calculate the mode properties of optical
fibers|[1-3]. Since then many other waveguiding structures such as tapers and Y-junctions [4 …

Optical waveguide devices based upon lithium niobate substrates are presently in an
advanced state. A large variety of devices have been demonstrated; fabrication parameters …