Title :
Experimental demonstration of 1 to 1024 optical division using slightly etched rib silicon-on-insulator waveguides
Author :
Marris, D. ; Vivien, L. ; Pascal, D. ; Cassan, E. ; Lupu, A. ; Rouvière, M. ; Laval, S. ; Fédéli, J.M. ; El Melhaoui, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microelectron. & Optoelectron. Devices, CNRS, Orsay, France
Abstract :
Experimental demonstration of successive optical divisions from one input to 1024 output points is presented using slightly etched submicron rib SOI waveguides. Excess loss per division of 0.7 dB has been measured.
Keywords :
etching; optical losses; optical waveguides; rib waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; etching; excess loss; optical division; rib silicon-on-insulator waveguides; Etching; Optical films; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator technology;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2005. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9070-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2005.1516453
