• DocumentCode
    2991817
  • Title

    Mode-Expanded Bus Architecture for Non-sensitive Waveguide Alignment in Vertically-coupled Microring

  • Author

    Tee, C.W. ; Williams, K.A. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H. ; Hamacher, M. ; Troppenz, U. ; Heidrich, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Photonic Systems, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK. Email: cwt23@cam.ac.uk
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate experimentally a five-fold improvement in fabrication tolerance for vertically-coupled microrings using a mode-expanded bus waveguide. The power coupling coefficient is observed to vary by only 6% for misalignment as high as 1¿m.
  • Keywords
    Optical device fabrication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801189
  • Filename
    4801189
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2991817