• DocumentCode
    161067
  • Title

    Fully-etched apodized fiber-to-chip grating coupler on the SOI platform with −0.78 dB coupling efficiency using photonic crystals and bonded Al mirror

  • Author

    Yunhong Ding ; Haiyan Ou ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Yvind, Kresten

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We design and fabricate an ultra-high coupling efficiency fully-etched apodized grating coupler on the SOI platform using photonic crystals and bonded aluminum mirror. Ultra-high coupling efficiency of -0.78 dB with a 3 dB bandwidth of 74 nm are demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    aluminium; diffraction gratings; etching; integrated optics; mirrors; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; photonic crystals; silicon-on-insulator; Al; SOI platform; bonded aluminum mirror; coupling efficiency; fully-etched apodized fiber-to-chip grating coupler; photonic crystals; silicon-on-insulator; Couplers; Couplings; Fiber gratings; Gratings; Mirrors; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963889
  • Filename
    6963889