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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-7-18
pubmed:abstractText
Grating couplers are widely used as an efficient and versatile fiber-chip coupling structure in nanometric silicon wire waveguides. The implementation of efficient grating couplers in micrometric silicon-on-insulator (SOI) rib waveguides is, however, challenging, since the coupler waveguide region is multimode. Here we experimentally demonstrate grating couplers in 1.5 ?m-thick SOI rib waveguides with a coupling efficiency of -2.2 dB and a 3 dB bandwidth of 40 nm. An inverse taper is used to adiabatically transform the interconnection waveguide mode to the optimum grating coupler excitation field with negligible higher order Bloch mode excitation. Couplers are fabricated in the same etch step as the waveguides using i-line stepper lithography. The benefits of wafer-scale testing and device characterization without facet preparation are thus attained at no additional cost.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1539-4794
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
© 2011 Optical Society of America
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2647-9
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Single-etch grating coupler for micrometric silicon rib waveguides.
pubmed:affiliation
Departamento Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain. caar@ic.uma.es
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article