3D photonic structure for plug-and-play fiber to waveguide coupling
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gordillo, Oscar A. Jimenez; Tadayon, Mohammad Amin; Chang, You-Chia; Lipson, Michal
- Source
- 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2018 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2018
- Subject
- General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fiber couplers
Optical fiber devices
Couplings
Polymers
Couplers
- Language
We show a 3D photonic structure for passive high alignment tolerance fiber to waveguide coupling. We measured a coupling efficiency of 2.5dB+/-0.4dB from fiber to a polymeric waveguide for fiber misalignments within a 17 μm diameter.