Interferometric microscopy of silicon photonic devices

William S. Rabinovich; Rita Mahon; Peter G. Goetz; Marcel Pruessner; Mike S. Ferraro; Doe Park; Erin Fleet; Michael J. DePrenger

doi:10.1117/12.2077267

27 February 2015 Interferometric microscopy of silicon photonic devices

William S. Rabinovich, Rita Mahon, Peter G. Goetz, Marcel Pruessner, Mike S. Ferraro, Doe Park, Erin Fleet, Michael J. DePrenger

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Proceedings Volume 9367, Silicon Photonics X; 93670O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077267
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Silicon photonics provides the ability to construct complex photonic circuits that act on the amplitude and phase of multiple optical channels. Many applications of silicon photonics depend on maintenance of optical coherence among the various waveguides and structures on the chip. Other applications can depend on the modal structures of the waveguides. All these application require the ability to characterize the amplitude and phase of individual optical channels. Fourier imaging with high numerical aperture microscope objectives has been used to image the intensity of individual channels of photonic structures in both real and Fourier space. In other work, holographic imaging of multimode fibers has allowed modal decomposition. In this work we use interferometric microscopy to image the amplitude and phase of a variety of silicon photonic structures. These include a multimode interference splitter and a multimode waveguide under various excitation conditions.

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William S. Rabinovich, Rita Mahon, Peter G. Goetz, Marcel Pruessner, Mike S. Ferraro, Doe Park, Erin Fleet, and Michael J. DePrenger "Interferometric microscopy of silicon photonic devices", Proc. SPIE 9367, Silicon Photonics X, 93670O (27 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077267

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