A Library of Ultra-Compact Multimode Interference Optical Couplers on SOI
- 1 May 2013
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 25 (12), 1149-1152
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lpt.2013.2261193
Abstract
A library of compact multimode interference (MMI) couplers with MMI region widths ranging from 1.1 μm to 3.2 μm is presented for 220-nm silicon-on-insulator-based photonic circuits. By optimizing the MMI geometrical parameters and considering the Goos-Häanchen shift, insertion losses of lower than 0.1 dB with moderate experimental errors are achieved for 3-dB MMI power splitters at C band, with the power imbalance around 0.2 dB.Keywords
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