Low-loss multimode-interference-based crossings for silicon wire waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2260-2262

  Chen, Hui ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross grid array; Crossings; High index contrast; Integrated optic devices; Multimode interference (MMI); Silicon wire waveguides

Indexed keywords

GRID ARRAYS; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; INTEGRATED OPTIC DEVICES; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 35148850342     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.884726     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. R. A. Soref and B. E. Little, "Proposed N-wavelengthM-fiber WDM crossconnect switch using active microring resonators," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.8, no.8, pp. 1121-1123, Aug. 1998.
2. B. E. Little, S. T. Chu, W. Pan, and Y. Kokubun, "Microring resonators arrays for VLSI photonics," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.12, no.3, pp. 323-325, Mar. 2000.
3. C. Manolatou, S. G. Johnson, S. Fan, P. R. Villeneuve, H. A. Haus, and J. D. Joannopoulos, "High-density integrated optics," J. Lightw. Technol., vol.17, no.9, pp. 1682-1692, Sep. 1999.
4. Y. A. Vlasov and S. J. McNab, "Losses in single-mode silicon-on-insulator strip waveguides and bends," Opt. Express, vol.12, pp. 1622-1631, 2004.
5. A. Kazmierczak, M. Brière, E. Drouard, P. Bontoux, P. Rojo-Romeo, I. O'Connor, X. Letartre, F. Gaffiot, R. Orobtchouk, and T. Benyattou, "Design, simulation, and characterization of a passive optical add-drop filter in silicon-on-insulator technology," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.17, no.7, pp. 1447-1449, Jul. 2005.
6. S. G. Johnson, C. Manolatou, S. Fan, P. R. Villeneuve, J. D. Joannopoulos, and H. A. Haus, "Elimination of cross talk in waveguide intersections," Opt. Lett., vol.23, pp. 1855-1857, 1998.
7. T. Fukazawa, T. Hirano, F. Ohno, and T. Baba, "Low loss intersection of Si photonic wire waveguides," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol.43, pp. 646-647, 2004.
8. P. Dumon, G. Roelkens, W. Bogaerts, D. Van Thourhout, J. Wouters, S. Beckx, P. Jaenen, and R. Baets, "Basic photonic wire components in silicon-on-insulator," presented at the Proc. IEEE/LEOS 2nd Int. Conf. Group IV Photonics, Antwerp, Belgium, Sep. 21-23, 2005.
9. H. R. Stuart, "Waveguide lenses with multimode interference for lowloss slab propagation," Opt. Lett., vol.28, pp. 2141-2143, 2003.
10. H. Liu, H. Tam, P. K. A. Wai, and E. Pun, "Low-loss waveguide crossing using a multimode interference structure," Opt. Commun., vol.241, pp. 99-104, 2004.
11. Y. Hatakeyama, T. Hanai, S. Suzuki, and Y. Kokubun, "Loss-less multilevel crossing of busline waveguide in vertically coupled microring resonator filter," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.16, no.2, pp. 473-475, Feb. 2004.
12. P. Koonath, T. Indukuri, and B. Jalali, "Monolithic 3-D silicon photonics," J. Lightw. Technol., vol.24, no.4, pp. 1796-1804, Apr. 2006.