Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit Mode Multiplexer
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Ding, Y.; Ou, H.; Xu, J.; Peucheret, C.
- Source
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 25(7):648-651 Apr, 2013
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Gratings
Couplers
Multiplexing
Optical fiber couplers
Optical fiber polarization
Couplings
Silicon
Grating coupler
mode multiplexer
photonic integrated circuit (PIC)
silicon-on-insulator
space-division multiplexing (SDM)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1041-1135
1941-0174
We propose and demonstrate a novel silicon photonic integrated circuit enabling multiplexing of orthogonal modes in a few-mode fiber (FMF). By selectively launching light to four vertical grating couplers, all six orthogonal spatial and polarization modes supported by the FMF are successfully excited independently.