Title :
1 X 12 even fanout using multimode interference optical beam splitter on silicon nanomembrane
Author :
Kwong, David ; Zhang, Ye ; Hosseini, Amir ; Liu, Yanbing ; Chen, Ray T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
fDate :
9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A compact silicon nanomembrane based 1 × 12 multimode interference coupler (MMI) fabricated on silicon-on-insulator is presented. The strip waveguide structure provides the smallest device size for a single stage MMI with 12 output channels. The MMI exhibits high uniformity up to 0.72 dB and has low loss of 1.13 dB using tranverse-electric (TE) polarised light at 1550 nm wavelength.
Keywords :
integrated optics; nanophotonics; optical beam splitters; optical couplers; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Si; even fanout; multimode interference coupler; multimode interference optical beam splitter; silicon nanomembrane; silicon-on-insulator; strip waveguide structure; tranverse electric polarised light; wavelength 1550 nm;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2010.1570
