Title :
Surface-normal photonic crystal membrane reflectors with integrated inplane couplers for integrated silicon photonics
Author :
Deyin Zhao ; Singh Chadha, Arvinder ; Shihchia Liu ; Hongjun Yang ; Yi-Chen Shuai ; Zhenqiang Ma ; Weidong Zhou
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
We report design and fabrication of photonic crystal (PC) Si membrane reflectors with integrated inplane couplers (Si MR-Coupler) based on Fano resonance effect. The measured results show the Si MR-Coupler has a 99% reflection and > 0.22% in-plane coupling efficiency.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; membranes; optical couplers; photoemission; photonic crystals; silicon; Fano resonance effect; Si; in-plane coupling efficiency; integrated in-plane couplers; integrated silicon photonics; reflection; surface-normal photonic crystal membrane reflectors; Couplers; Couplings; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Reflection; Silicon; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995194
