Title :
Efficient coupling of optical-antenna based nanoLED to a photonic waveguide
Author :
Eggleston, Michael ; Wu, Ming C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
An optical-antenna nanoLED is coupled into an InP waveguide. Optical emission measurements of Yagi-Uda antennas show a 5x increase in forward coupled light, giving 70% waveguide coupling efficiency and directional emission.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; Yagi antenna arrays; indium compounds; integrated optoelectronics; light emitting diodes; nanophotonics; optical waveguides; InP; Yagi-Uda antennas; directional emission; forward coupled light; nanoLED; optical emission measurements; optical-antenna; photonic waveguide coupling; Couplings; Finite element analysis; Optical coupling; Optical waveguides; Stimulated emission; Yagi-Uda antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656571
