• DocumentCode
    2159287
  • Title

    Fully passive Si-photonic 90° hybrid for coherent receiver applications

  • Author

    Voigt, K. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Winzer, G. ; Tian, H. ; Tillack, B. ; Petermann, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Joint Lab. Silicon Photonics, Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We present a fully passive Silicon nanowire based optical 90° hybrid based on a 4×4 MMI coupler for application in coherent receivers. The hybrid shows an excess loss <;0.5dB and phase accuracy better than 5°.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; nanowires; optical couplers; optical receivers; silicon; MMI coupler; Si; coherent receiver application; fully passive nanowire; fully passive photonic; phase accuracy; Adaptive optics; Couplers; Optical coupling; Optical device fabrication; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065977