Performance improvement to silicon-on-insulator waveguide directional-coupler based devices

DeGui Sun; Imad Hasan; Sawsan Abdul-Majid; Rob Vandusen; Qi Zheng; Ali Hussien; Chunxia Wang; Zhongming Hu; T. Garry Tarr; Trevor J. Hall

doi:10.1117/12.871723

17 November 2010 Performance improvement to silicon-on-insulator waveguide directional-coupler based devices

DeGui Sun, Imad Hasan, Sawsan Abdul-Majid, Rob Vandusen, Qi Zheng, Ali Hussien, Chunxia Wang, Zhongming Hu, T. Garry Tarr, Trevor J. Hall

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Proceedings Volume 7847, Optoelectronic Devices and Integration III; 78470F (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871723
Event: Photonics Asia 2010, 2010, Beijing, China

Abstract

For the SOI-waveguide directional coupler (WDC), optical access loss (OAL) and polarization dependence (PD) are two critical performance specifications which seriously affect the adoptability and deployment of a device, including optical on-chip loss (OCL), polarization dependent loss (PDL) and extinction ratio of a 3dB-coupler based device. In this work, using a commercial software tool - FIMMPROP, the performance of an SOI-WDC is simulated. Simulations find that the curved waveguides for the turning sections of a 3dB WDC not only enlarge the footprint size, but also seriously deteriorate the device performance. For instance, the two curved waveguide sections of a WDC induce an unpredictably large change in the 3dB-coupling length, increase an OAL of 0.4-0.9dB, and seriously deteriorate the PD, and these performance changes radically depend on rib size. After a corner-turning mirror (CTM) structure is introduced to a 3dB SOI-WDC, the experiments show both the footprint length and 3dB-coupling length are unchanged, the OAL of the 3dB coupler is only 0.5dB which is close to the simulation value. Therefore, for a 3dB-coupler based Mach-Zehnder interference (MZI) structure, the OCL will be controlled to be <1.0dB in device design and will not depend on rib size.

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DeGui Sun, Imad Hasan, Sawsan Abdul-Majid, Rob Vandusen, Qi Zheng, Ali Hussien, Chunxia Wang, Zhongming Hu, T. Garry Tarr, and Trevor J. Hall "Performance improvement to silicon-on-insulator waveguide directional-coupler based devices", Proc. SPIE 7847, Optoelectronic Devices and Integration III, 78470F (17 November 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871723

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Waveguides

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Silicon

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