The Study Of Glass-based Ion Exchange Waveguide

In the information age, the rapid development of information technology has provided a broad space to the development of optical communication technology. Especially FTTH will rise to whip up a new round of the optical communication network building to a climax. Glass-based ion exchange technology is a very good choice in fabricating function devices in building FTTH, especially the positives optical network. The superiority of this technology will be further displayed in the development of optical communication technology.In this paper, we have a systematical research on the glass based ion-exchanged technology. Based on the theoretical analysis, we have proposed the mathematical relationship between the technology parameters and the waveguide performance parameters in the field assisted ion exchange process. Then a large number of experiments were carried out to prove this relationship and gave an exact expression of this relationship by calculating, by which we proposed a complete model of the field assisted ion exchange technology.In this paper, we also discussed the process of fabricating an glass-based ion exchange waveguide. We analyzed some problems may encounter in the actual production process, and some possible solutions were given. Finally, the inadequacies of this paper were discussed and put forward some directions of the development of this technology in the future.