• DocumentCode
    1678936
  • Title

    High coupling efficiency etched facet tapers in silicon

  • Author

    Cardenas, Jaime ; Luke, Kevin ; Luo, Lian Wee ; Poitras, Carl B. ; Morton, Paul A. ; Lipson, Michal

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate etched facet silicon inverse tapers with coupling loss as low as 0.7dB per facet. This taper can be fabricated on a wafer scale enabling mass-production of silicon photonic devices with broadband, high-efficiency couplers.
  • Keywords
    etching; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical waveguides; silicon; wafer-scale integration; Si; coupling efficiency; coupling loss; etched facet tapers; inverse taper waveguide; silicon; silicon photonic devices; wafer scale; Couplers; Couplings; Loss measurement; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; Waveguide discontinuities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326611
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1678936