Title :
Efficient fibre-chip grating coupler for thick SOI rib waveguides
Author :
Alonso-Ramos, C. ; Ortega-Moñux, A. ; Zavargo-Peche, L. ; Halir, R. ; de-Oliva-Rubio, J. ; Molina-Fernández, I. ; Cheben, P. ; Xu, D.-X. ; Janz, S. ; Kim, N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Ing. de Comun., Univ. de Malaga, Málaga, Spain
Abstract :
In this work a fiber to chip grating coupler in micrometric SOI rib waveguides is experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, with -4dB coupling efficiency when an inverse taper is used as excitation stage.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical fibre couplers; rib waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; coupling efficiency; excitation stage; fibre-chip grating coupler; gain -4 dB; inverse taper; micrometric thick SOI rib waveguides; Couplers; Couplings; Fabrication; Gratings; Loss measurement; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
