Title : 
Concave Low-Loss Total Internal Reflection Mirrors in Indium Phosphide for High Fabrication Tolerance
         
        
            Author : 
Joseph A. Summers;Vikrant Lal;Milan L. Masanovic;Nadir Dagli;Daniel J. Blumenthal
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA. jsummers@ece.ucsb.edu
         
        
        
            fDate : 
5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We report on a novel concave total internal reflection mirror fabricated in InP that allows larger mirror size and mask alignment tolerance. Average mirror loss measured was 0.56dB/mirror with a standard deviation of 0.14 dB/mirror.
         
        
            Keywords : 
"Mirrors","Indium phosphide","Fabrication","Optical waveguides","Etching","Optical reflection","Optical surface waves","Optical losses","Loss measurement","Photonic integrated circuits"
         
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2160-9004
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452996