Simulations of taper designs for integrated Ge/SiGe waveguide system
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lu, Ching-Ying; Zang, Kai; Huo, Yijie; Chen, Xiaochi; Fei, Edward T.; Xue, Muyu; Kamins, Theodore I.; Harris, James S.
- Source
- 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2017 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2017
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Three-dimensional displays
Silicon
Two dimensional displays
Oscillators
Couplings
Quantum well devices
- Language
We simulated different taper designs and demonstrated that 3D tapers improved the coupling efficiencies and maintained the fundamental mode as they provided a more gradual optical transition between a Si waveguide and Ge/SiGe device layers.