Title :
Membrane-based high efficiency metallic grating couplers for integrated photonics
Author :
A. Higuera-Rodriguez;V. Dolores-Calzadilla;Y. Jiao;E. J. Geluk;D. Heiss;M. Smit
Author_Institution :
Photonic Integration, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Postbus 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Abstract :
We developed a novel buried metal grating coupler for membrane platforms. We experimentally demonstrated a chip-to-fiber coupling efficiency of 56%, which makes them an attractive building block for on-wafer testing and dense optical interconnects.
Keywords :
"Gratings","Couplers","Metals","Optical fiber couplers","Photonics","Optical fiber devices","Optical fiber polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376469
