SOI 2D photonic crystals for microphotonic integrated circuits

Author

McNab, S.J. ; Vlasov, Yu.A.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

14-16 July 2003

Abstract

We review recent achievements in fabrication of silicon-on-insulator 2D photonic crystals compatible with microelectronics processing will be reported. We first address the problem of radiation and propagation losses by quantitative measurements of transmission spectra for various designs of photonic crystal waveguides. In optimized structures record low propagation losses of 20 dB/cm are reported. Next we show the way to effectively couple the light from the fiber to high index microphotonic circuits and photonic crystals by proper design of mode converter and butt-coupler.

Keywords

infrared spectra; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; optical couplers; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; silicon-on-insulator; SOI 2D photonic crystals; Si; butt-coupler; high index microphotonic circuits; microelectronics processing; microphotonic integrated circuits; mode converter; photonic crystal waveguides; propagation losses; silicon-on-insulator 2D photonic crystals; transmission spectra; Coupling circuits; Fabrication; Integrated circuit measurements; Loss measurement; Microelectronics; Optical coupling; Photonic crystals; Photonic integrated circuits; Propagation losses; Silicon on insulator technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Holey Fibers and Photonic Crystals/Polarization Mode Dispersion/Photonics Time/Frequency Measurement and Control, 2003 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7982-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2003.1224284

Filename

1224284