• DocumentCode
    1658565
  • Title

    Planar Concave Grating Demultiplexer with Distributed Bragg Reflection Facets

  • Author

    Brouckaert, Joost ; Bogaerts, Wim ; Dumon, Pieter ; Selvaraja, Shankar Kumar ; Roelkens, Gunther ; Van Thourhout, Dries ; Baets, Roel

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol. (INTEC), Ghent Univ.- lMEC, Ghent
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We present measurement results of a 4-channel silicon-on-insulator grating demultiplexer fabricated in a CMOS-line. On-chip loss is reduced below 4.5dB over a broad wavelength range by replacing each facet by a second order Bragg reflector.
  • Keywords
    demultiplexing equipment; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflectors; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical losses; silicon-on-insulator; 4-channel silicon-on-insulator grating demultiplexer; CMOS-line; Si; distributed Bragg reflection facets; on-chip loss; planar concave grating demultiplexer; second order Bragg reflector; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bragg gratings; Etching; Fabrication; Face; Gold; Optical waveguides; Reflection; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wires;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2007 4th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0934-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2007.4347651
  • Filename
    4347651