Title :
Low-loss hybrid silicon tapers
Author :
Pintus, Paolo ; Heck, Martijn J R ; Kurczveil, Géza ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Two types of hybrid silicon tapers are studied. Single taper loss is 0.3 - 0.5 dB, enabling integration of III/V actives on silicon-on-insulator passive circuitry with low loss.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical waveguides; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; loss 0.3 dB to 0.5 dB; low-loss hybrid silicon tapers; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator passive circuitry; taper loss; Absorption; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Propagation losses; Silicon; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8338-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053715
