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Low-loss fiber-to-chip edge coupler for silicon nitride integrated circuits

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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 10525-10532

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Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.483907

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Silicon nitride (SiN) integrated optical waveguides, known for their low loss, wide bandwidth, and high nonlinearity, face a challenge when coupling with single-mode fibers due to mode mismatch. In this study, we propose a coupling approach using high-index doped silica glass (HDSG) waveguides as intermediaries to address this issue. Our approach achieves a fiber-to-SiN waveguide coupling efficiency of lower than 0.8 dB/facet across the full C and L bands, while maintaining high fabrication and alignment tolerances.
Silicon nitride (SiN) integrated optical waveguides have found a wide range of applications due to their low loss, broad wavelength transmission band and high nonlinearity. However, the large mode mismatch between the single-mode fiber and the SiN waveguide creates a challenge of fiber coupling to these waveguides. Here, we propose a coupling approach between fiber and SiN waveguides by utilizing the high-index doped silica glass (HDSG) waveguide as the intermediary to smooth out the mode transition. We achieved fiber-to-SiN waveguide coupling efficiency of lower than 0.8 dB/facet across the full C and L bands with high fabrication and alignment tolerances.

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