• DocumentCode
    577945
  • Title

    CMOS compatible subwavelength grating couplers for silicon integrated photonics

  • Author

    Xu, Xiaochuan ; Subbaraman, Harish ; Covey, John ; Kwong, David ; Hosseini, Amir ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Microelectron. Res. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    350
  • Lastpage
    351
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a through etched subwavelength grating coupler, which can be patterned together with other photonic components. It achieves a very high coupling efficiency of 59% with a 3dB bandwidth of 60 nm.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; etching; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical fabrication; silicon; CMOS compatible-subwavelength grating couplers; Si; Silicon Integrated Photonics; efficiency 59 percent; etching; high-coupling efficiency; noise figure 3 dB; photonic components; wavelength 60 nm; Couplers; Couplings; Fabrication; Gratings; Photonics; Silicon; gratings; nanophotonics and photonic crystals; subwavelength structure;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358636
  • Filename
    6358636