High Coupling Efficiency Etched Facet Tapers in Silicon Waveguides
Open Access
- 11 September 2014
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 26 (23), 2380-2382
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lpt.2014.2357177
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
Funding Information
- Defense Sciences Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Small Business Technology Transfer (W91CRB-10-C-0099)
- Cornell NanoScale Facility, a Member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
- National Science Foundation (ECCS-0335765)
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