• DocumentCode
    1317000
  • Title

    1 X 12 even fanout using multimode interference optical beam splitter on silicon nanomembrane

  • Author

    Kwong, David ; Zhang, Ye ; Hosseini, Amir ; Liu, Yanbing ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    18
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1281
  • Lastpage
    1283
  • Abstract
    A compact silicon nanomembrane based 1 × 12 multimode interference coupler (MMI) fabricated on silicon-on-insulator is presented. The strip waveguide structure provides the smallest device size for a single stage MMI with 12 output channels. The MMI exhibits high uniformity up to 0.72 dB and has low loss of 1.13 dB using tranverse-electric (TE) polarised light at 1550 nm wavelength.
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; nanophotonics; optical beam splitters; optical couplers; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Si; even fanout; multimode interference coupler; multimode interference optical beam splitter; silicon nanomembrane; silicon-on-insulator; strip waveguide structure; tranverse electric polarised light; wavelength 1550 nm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2010.1570
  • Filename
    5567060