• DocumentCode
    1655072
  • Title

    Feasibility of multimode polycrystalline waveguides/devices: Record low propagation loss and uniform 1×12 MMI fanout

  • Author

    Kwong, David ; Covey, John ; Hosseini, Amir ; Zhang, Yang ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We investigate the loss dependence of multimode polysilicon waveguide widths, achieving a record low propagation loss of 3 dB/cm as well as demonstrating a low loss and high uniformity 1×12 multimode interference (MMI) beam splitter.
  • Keywords
    light propagation; optical beam splitters; optical losses; optical materials; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; low propagation loss; multimode interference beam splitter; multimode polycrystalline waveguides; multimode polysilicon waveguide; polycrystalline device; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Optical losses; Optimized production technology; Photonics; Propagation losses; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325714