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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
