Title :
Efficient planar single-mode fiber-to-chip coupler based on two-stage adiabatic evolution
Author :
Khilo, Anatol ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A novel planar two-stage adiabatic single-mode fiber-to-chip coupler design is presented. The combination of rib and inverse tapers allows to make it 2–2.5 times shorter than state-of-the art inverse taper-based couplers with similar conversion efficiency.
Keywords :
Coupling circuits; Fabrication; Integrated optics; Laboratories; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical fiber couplers; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
