Efficient Optical I/O in Standard SiPh Process
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Melikyan, Argishti; Hu, Ting-Chen; Kim, Kwangwoong; Baeyens, Yves; Earnshaw, Mark; Dong, Po
- Source
- 2019 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2019. :1-3 Mar, 2019
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical device fabrication
Standards
Optical polarization
Optical coupling
Couplers
Silicon
Gratings
- Language
We demonstrate grating coupler based, efficient optical I/Os for silicon photonic(SiPh) chip-to-fiber and chip-to-chip applications. Standard single-mode fiber(SSMF)-to-chip interface experimentally shows coupling efficiency of −1.3dB. The reported I/Os are fabricated in standard SiPh process.