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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 20, 期 1, 页码 164-172出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000164
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- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1102246] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We demonstrate coupling from tapered optical fibers to 450 nm by 250 nm silicon strip waveguides using compact cantilever couplers. The couplers consist of silicon inverse width tapers embedded within silicon dioxide cantilevers. Finite difference time domain simulations are used to design the length of the silicon inverse width taper to as short as 6.5 mu m for a cantilever width of 2 mu m. Modeling of various strip waveguide taper profiles shows reduced coupling losses for a quadratic taper profile. Infrared measurements of fabricated devices demonstrate average coupling losses of 0.62 dB per connection for the quasi-TE mode and 0.50 dB per connection for the quasi-TM mode across the optical telecommunications C band. In the wavelength range from 1477 nm to 1580 nm, coupling losses for both polarizations are less than 1 dB per connection. The compact, broadband, and low-loss coupling scheme enables direct access to photonic integrated circuits on an entire chip surface without the need for dicing or cleaving the chip. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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