High efficiency fiber coupling to silicon sandwiched slot waveguides

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 2008 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Optics Communications, volume 281, pages 5,173-5,176 (issn: 0030-4018,

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Authors: J.V. Galan; P. Sanchis; J. Blasco; A. Martinez; J. Martí;

doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.07.013

High efficiency fiber coupling to silicon sandwiched slot waveguides

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Abstract The design of a fiber coupler for high efficiency light coupling to silicon sandwiched slot waveguides is reported. The proposed fiber coupler is based on the inverted taper approach. Parameters have been optimized to maximize coupling efficiency for λ = 1550 nm and TM polarization. Maximum coupling efficiencies of 93% for a inverted taper length of 150 μm and a inverted taper tip width of 40 nm have been obtained by means of the overlap integral and 3D beam propagation method (BPM) simulations.

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