Title :
Optical interlayer coupling design for optical interconnects based on mirror enhanced grating couplers
Author :
Yao, Jin ; Zheng, Xuezhe ; Shubin, Ivan ; Li, Guoliang ; Thacker, Hiren ; Luo, Ying ; Lee, Jin-Hyoung ; Raj, Kannan ; Cunningham, John E. ; Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V.
Author_Institution :
Oracle Labs., San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
We have designed new optical interlayer couplers based on grating couplers with post-processed mirrors to achieve low insertion loss on a 130nm SOI CMOS process. Optimized design shows an interlayer coupling loss of 2.2 dB.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; diffraction gratings; integrated optoelectronics; mirrors; optical couplers; optical design techniques; optical interconnections; silicon-on-insulator; SOI CMOS process; Si; loss 2.2 dB; mirror enhanced grating couplers; optical interconnects; optical interlayer couplers; optical interlayer coupling design; post-processed mirrors; size 130 nm;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1620-1
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2012.6224464
