• DocumentCode
    552313
  • Title

    Engineering of silicon-on-insulator waveguide gratings for coupling to optical fibers

  • Author

    Chen, Xia ; Tsang, Hon K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    4-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    845
  • Lastpage
    846
  • Abstract
    We review our recent work on waveguide grating couplers. The grating structure may be engineered to enhance the coupling efficiency and bandwidth of grating couplers. Polarization-independent operation can also be achieved.
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; integrated optics; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre polarisation; silicon-on-insulator; Si; grating couplers; grating structure; optical fiber coupling; polarization-independent operation; silicon-on-insulator waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Couplers; Gratings; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2011 16th
  • Conference_Location
    Kaohsiung
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-288-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-986-02-8974-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6015401