Title :
High Coupling Efficiency Etched Facet Tapers in Silicon Waveguides
Author :
Cardenas, Jamie ; Poitras, Carl B. ; Luke, Kevin ; Lian-Wee Luo ; Morton, Paul A. ; Lipson, Michal
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a platform based on etched facet silicon inverse tapers for waveguide-lensed fiber coupling with a loss as low as 0.7 dB/facet. This platform can be fabricated on a wafer scale enabling mass-production of silicon photonic devices with broadband, high-efficiency couplers.
Keywords :
etching; integrated optics; lenses; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; silicon; Si; etched facet silicon inverse tapers; high coupling efficiency etched facet tapers; high-efficiency couplers; loss; mass-production; silicon photonic devices; silicon waveguides; wafer scale; waveguide-lensed fiber coupling; Couplers; Couplings; Loss measurement; Optical fiber couplers; Silicon; Waveguides; coupler; inverse tapers; photonics;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2014.2357177
