• DocumentCode
    2733288
  • Title

    Polarization insensitive vertical coupler for multi-layer silicon photonic integrated circuits

  • Author

    Shitao Gao ; Yang Wang ; Ke Wang ; Skafidas, Efstratios

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. ICT Australia Ltd. (NICTA) - Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    20-22 April 2015
  • Firstpage
    70
  • Lastpage
    71
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we propose a polarization insensitive vertical coupler for 3D silicon photonic integrated circuits. Results show that the inter-layer coupling loss is 0.29 dB for the TE mode and 0.2 dB for the TM mode.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; light polarisation; optical couplers; optical losses; optical multilayers; silicon; 3D silicon photonic integrated circuits; Si; TE mode; TM mode; interlayer coupling loss; loss 0.29 dB; loss 2 dB; multilayer silicon photonic integrated circuits; polarization insensitive vertical coupler; Couplers; Couplings; Fabrication; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Silicon photonics; Three-dimensional displays; directional couplers; large scale integration; silicon photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Interconnects Conference (OI), 2015 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8178-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OIC.2015.7115705
  • Filename
    7115705