• DocumentCode
    3054129
  • Title

    Ultra-high-efficiency apodized grating coupler using a fully etched photonic crystal

  • Author

    Yunhong Ding ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Haiyan Ou

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    June 30 2013-July 4 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate an apodized fiber-to-chip grating coupler using fully etched photonic crystal holes on the silicon-on-insulator platform. An ultra-high coupling efficiency of 1.65 dB (68%) with 3 dB bandwidth of 60 nm is experimentally demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; optical fibre couplers; photonic crystals; silicon-on-insulator; Si-SiO2; apodized fiber-to-chip grating coupler; fully etched photonic crystal; silicon-on-insulator platform; ultrahigh coupling efficiency; ultrahigh-efficiency apodized grating coupler; Couplers; Couplings; Gratings; Photonic crystals; Scattering; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6599991
  • Filename
    6599991