Title :
Silicon photonic integrated circuit for coupling to a ring-core multimode fiber for space-division multiplexing
Author :
Doerr, C.R. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Hirano, M. ; Sasaki, T. ; Buhl, L.L. ; Winzer, P.J.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate a silicon photonic integrated circuit for coupling to the modes of a novel radially single-mode and azimuthally multimode ring-core fiber (RCF). All the RCF modes may be selectively excited by a star-coupler-fed circular grating coupler.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical fibre couplers; silicon; space division multiplexing; Si; azimuthally multimode ring-core fiber; circular grating coupler; ring-core multimode fiber; silicon photonic integrated circuit; space-division multiplexing; star-coupler-fed; Couplers; Couplings; Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
