Title :
Planar Concave Grating Demultiplexer on a Nanophotonic Silicon-on-Insulator Platform
Author :
Brouckaert, Joost ; Bogaerts, Wim ; Dumon, Pieter ; Schrauwen, Jonathan ; Van Thourhout, Dries ; Baets, Roel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ.
Abstract :
We present measurement results of a 4-channel silicon-on-insulator grating demultiplexer fabricated in a CMOS line. It has an ultra-small footprint of 280times150 mum2, 20 nm channel spacing, on-chip loss of 7.5 dB and crosstalk of better than -30 dB
Keywords :
channel spacing; demultiplexing equipment; diffraction gratings; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical planar waveguides; optical testing; silicon-on-insulator; 4-channel planar concave grating demultiplexer fabrication; 7.5 dB; CMOS line; Si-SiO2; channel crosstalk measurement; channel spacing; nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator; on-chip loss; optical waveguide; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Crosstalk; Diffraction; Etching; Fabrication; Lithography; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Silicon on insulator technology; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.279091
