A compact and low-loss MMI coupler fabricated with CMOS technology

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2272-2277

  Sheng, Zhen ^a   Wang, Zhiqi ^a   Qiu, Chao ^a,b   Li, Le ^b   Pang, Albert ^b   Wu, Aimin ^a   Wang, Xi ^a   Zou, Shichang ^a,b   Gan, Fuwan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

low loss; Multimode interference (MMI) coupler; silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COMPACT SIZE; EXCESS LOSS; MMI-COUPLER; MODE MATCHING METHOD; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; MULTIMODES; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; WAVELENGTH BAND;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FABRICATION; NANOWIRES; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 84871368895     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2230320     Document Type: Article

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