Title :
Novel spot-size converter for optical fiber to sub-μm silicon waveguide coupling with low loss, low wavelength dependence and high tolerance to alignment
Author :
M.-J. Picard;Y. Painchaud;C. Latrasse;C. Larouche;F. Pelletier;M. Poulin
Author_Institution :
TeraXion, 2716 rue Einstein, Qué
Abstract :
A novel spot-size converter for coupling between a sub-μm silicon waveguide and an optical fiber provides 0.5 dB loss for TE polarization at 1550 nm with minimum wavelength dependence and a path for negligible PDL.
Keywords :
"Couplings","Silicon","Optical fiber polarization","Optical fiber devices","Optical fiber couplers"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341650
