DocumentCode
2157967
Title
Silicon photonic integrated circuit for coupling to a ring-core multimode fiber for space-division multiplexing
Author
Doerr, C.R. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Hirano, M. ; Sasaki, T. ; Buhl, L.L. ; Winzer, P.J.
Author_Institution
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
18-22 Sept. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We propose and demonstrate a silicon photonic integrated circuit for coupling to the modes of a novel radially single-mode and azimuthally multimode ring-core fiber (RCF). All the RCF modes may be selectively excited by a star-coupler-fed circular grating coupler.
Keywords
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical fibre couplers; silicon; space division multiplexing; Si; azimuthally multimode ring-core fiber; circular grating coupler; ring-core multimode fiber; silicon photonic integrated circuit; space-division multiplexing; star-coupler-fed; Couplers; Couplings; Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Geneva
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1918-9
Type
conf
Filename
6065926
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