• DocumentCode
    3627383
  • Title

    High Directivity, Vertical Fiber-to-Chip Coupler with Anisotropically Radiating Grating Teeth

  • Author

    Mingyan Fan;Milos A. Popovic;Franz X. Kartner

  • Author_Institution
    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. mingyan.fan@alum.mit.edu
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Efficient vertical grating-coupler designs are proposed that allow near 50:1 up/down directivity using only two lithographic layers, without top/bottom mirrors, in high-index-contrast silicon waveguides. FDTD simulations predict single-mode-fiber-coupling efficiencies of 75% even for non-apodized gratings.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fiber couplers","Anisotropic magnetoresistance","Fiber gratings","Teeth","Optical waveguides","Reflection","Diffraction","Particle scattering","Optical fiber devices","Frequency conversion"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2160-9004
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452953
  • Filename
    4452953