Highly efficient grating coupler between optical fiber and silicon photonic circuit

Author

Selvaraja, Shankar Kumar ; Vermeulen, Diedrik ; Schaekers, Marc ; Sleeckx, Erik ; Bogaerts, Wim ; Roelkens, Gunther ; Dumon, Pieter ; Van Thourhout, Dries ; Baets, Roel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Gent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report on a highly efficient grating coupler between an optical fiber and a silicon photonic circuit. Using layers of Si/SiO₂ as a Bragg mirror and amorphous Si we have measured a coupling efficiency of 69.5%.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; mirrors; optical fibre couplers; optical variables measurement; silicon; silicon compounds; Bragg mirror; Si-SiO₂; amorphous silicon; coupling efficiency measurement; efficiency 69.5 percent; high-efficiency grating coupler; optical fiber; silicon photonic circuit; Coupling circuits; Fiber gratings; Mirrors; Optical coupling; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; Photonic integrated circuits; Silicon; (230.1950) Diffraction gratings; (230.3120) Integrated optics Devices; (230.7370) Waveguides; (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225319