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JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages S455-S460Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/7/S22
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integrated optics; optical device fabrication; optical losses; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator technology
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Multi-step processing for a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform was developed. It allows the incorporation of additional grooves and steps into the basic optical waveguide structures, so that light can be adiabatically coupled between waveguides with different cross-sections. The processes were based on simple fabrication methods easily scalable for mass production. Two options for the fabrication sequence were tested, both having one silicon etch step with an oxide mask and another etch step with a resist mask. The applicability of the developed processes was tested with different waveguide structures. An additional groove etched beside a bent 10 mu m thick rib waveguide suppressed the bend losses to below 1 dB/90 degrees with a 5 mm bending radius. A waveguide mirror exhibited optical losses below 1 dB/90 degrees. The excess losses of a vertical taper between 10 and 4 mu m thick rib waveguides were 0.7 dB. A converter between a rib and a strip waveguide showed negligible losses, below 0.07 dB.
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