• DocumentCode
    2162424
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6066091