Title :
High speed optical interconnect based on grating coupler assisted silicon nitride waveguides
Author :
Shrestha, Vivek Raj ; Lee, Hak-Soon ; Kim, Woo-Ju ; Lee, Sang-Shin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Kwangwoon Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
A data transmission of 10 Gbps per channel has been demonstrated through 8 parallel Si3N4 waveguides, fibercoupled with grating couplers at 1575 nm. This reveals their good potential for use as practical short-distance optical interconnects.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; optical couplers; optical interconnections; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data transmission; grating coupler assisted silicon nitride waveguides; high speed optical interconnect; wavelength 1575 nm; Couplers; Couplings; Fiber gratings; Gratings; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276770