Efficient mode converter for coupling between fiber and micrometer size silicon waveguides

IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics GFP

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-51

  Barkai, Assia ^a   Liu, Ansheng ^b   Kim, Daewoong ^b   Cohen, Rami ^a   Elek, Nomi ^a   Chang, Hsu Hao ^c   Malik, Bilal H ^d   Gabay, Rami ^a   Jones, Richard ^b   Paniccia, Mario ^b   Izhaky, Nahum ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING LOSS; LOW LOSS; MICROMETER SIZES; MODE CONVERTER; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; SILICON CHIP; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

MICROMETERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 51849098549     PISSN: 19492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. W. Bogaerts, R. Baets, P. Dumon, V. Wiaux, S. Beckx, D. Taillaert, B. Luyssaert, J. Van Campenhout, P. Bienstman, and D. Van Thourhout, "Nanophotonic waveguides in silicon-on-insulator fabricated with CMOS technology," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 401-412, Jan. 2005.
2. T. Tsuchizawa, K. Yamada, H. Fukuda, T. Watanabe, J. Takahashi, M. Takahashi, T. Shoji, E. Tamechika, S. Itabashi, and H. Morita, "Microphotonics devices based on silicon microfabrication technology," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 232-240,Jan./Feb. 2005.
3. V. R. Almeida, R. R. Panepucci, and M. Lipson, "Nanotaper for compact mode conversion," Opt. Lett., vol. 28, no. 15, pp. 1302-1304, Aug. 2003.
4. G. Z. Masanovic, G. T. Reed, W. Headley, and B. Timotijevic, "A high efficiency input/output coupler for small silicon photonic devices," Opt. Express, vol. 13, no. 19, pp. 7374-7379, Sep. 2005.
5. I. Day, I. Evans, A. Knigha, F. Hopper, S. Roberts, J. Johnston, S. Day, I. Luff, H. Tsang, M. Asghari, "Tapered Silicon Waveguides for Low Insertion Loss Highly-Efficient High-speed Electronic Variable Optical Attenuators" OFC vol.1 pp.249, 2003.
6. A. Liu "Dual "cheese wedge" silicon taper waveguide" US Patent 20060115215.
7. J. K. Doylend and A. P. Knights "Design and Simulation of an Integrated Fiber-to-Chip Coupler for Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides" IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1363-1370 ,Nov./Dec. 2006.