Title :
Compact broadband 50∶50 hybrid plasmonic coupler for silicon photonics
Author :
Caspers, Jan Niklas ; Mojahedi, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
A compact hybrid plasmonic 50:50 directional coupler for the next generation of silicon photonics integrated circuit was fabricated and measured. Our device has a very small footprint of 21.2 μm by 1.1 μm. The coupler has less than 10% variation from a 3 dB coupling ratio over a wavelength range of more than 100 nm around 1.55 μm and an insertion loss of less than 1dB.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; optical directional couplers; optical fabrication; optical losses; plasmonics; silicon; Si; compact broadband hybrid plasmonic directional coupler; coupling ratio; insertion loss; silicon photonics integrated circuit; Couplers; Couplings; Optical coupling; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
