Silicon Nanophotonic Waveguide and Coupling

Author

Wang, Qian ; Ho, Seng-Tiong ; Huang, Yingyan

Author_Institution

Data Storage Inst., Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res., Singapore

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Modal characterization of silicon nanophotonic waveguide and its coupling to an optical fiber are investigated, which include: 1) a full-vectorial modal analysis of silicon nanophotonic waveguide and a TM-pass nanophotonic polarizer based on a simple taper structure; 2) a superlens based coupling structure between nanophotonic waveguide and singlemode fiber with a designed coupling loss ~0.64 dB and 3) a brief introduction on our cluster computing simulation platform and computational intelligence based optimizations for nanophotonic circuits.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optoelectronics; lenses; modal analysis; nanophotonics; optical fibre couplers; optical polarisers; optical waveguide components; silicon; waveguide polarisers; Si; TM-pass nanophotonic polarizer; cluster computing simulation platform; computational intelligence optimization; full-vectorial modal analysis; nanophotonic chips; nanophotonic circuit; optical fiber coupling; silicon nanophotonic waveguide; singlemode fiber; superlens coupling structure; taper structure; Coupling circuits; Modal analysis; Nanostructures; Optical coupling; Optical design; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PhotonicsGlobal@Singapore, 2008. IPGC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3901-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2906-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPGC.2008.4781303

Filename

4781303