• DocumentCode
    1956629
  • Title

    Low-loss hybrid silicon tapers

  • Author

    Pintus, Paolo ; Heck, Martijn J R ; Kurczveil, Géza ; Bowers, John E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    14-16 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    61
  • Abstract
    Two types of hybrid silicon tapers are studied. Single taper loss is 0.3 - 0.5 dB, enabling integration of III/V actives on silicon-on-insulator passive circuitry with low loss.
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; optical waveguides; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; loss 0.3 dB to 0.5 dB; low-loss hybrid silicon tapers; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator passive circuitry; taper loss; Absorption; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Propagation losses; Silicon; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8338-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053715
  • Filename
    6053715