Si-wire grating couplers for integrated optical transceivers based on single-mode fiber connection

Yohei Sobu; Seok–Hwan Jeong; Shigeaki Sekiguchi; Yu Tanaka; Ken Morito

doi:10.1117/12.2078699

27 February 2015 Si-wire grating couplers for integrated optical transceivers based on single-mode fiber connection

Yohei Sobu, Seok–Hwan Jeong, Shigeaki Sekiguchi, Yu Tanaka, Ken Morito

Proceedings Volume 9367, Silicon Photonics X; 936710 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078699
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, grating couplers (GCs) have been extensively reported as a promising device for optical coupling between Siwire waveguides and standard single mode optical fibers. In this paper, we report the feasibility study of Si-wire type GCs fabricated by the 248-nm KrF lithography process on a 200-mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer with a 220-nmthick Si layer. We report a 1D-GC for a transmitter that operates only with TE mode and a 2D-GC for a receiver that splits arbitrary polarization from a single mode fiber operating at a wavelength of 1550 nm. We investigated the fundamental feasibility with the simple design. Especially, the wafer uniformity in inter-dies of 1D and 2D-GC is mainly examined on a 200-mm SOI wafer. Additionally, we experimentally clarify the fundamental characteristics of the 1DGC from the viewpoint of an insertion loss and a 1-dB fiber misalignment tolerance. As for the 2D-GC, in addition to the same aspects with the 1D-GC, an optical crosstalk and a polarization dependent loss will also be discussed around 1550 nm wavelength. Also, the center wavelength against a grating period of the 1D-GC and a circular hole diameter of the 2D-GC will be characterized.

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Yohei Sobu, Seok–Hwan Jeong, Shigeaki Sekiguchi, Yu Tanaka, and Ken Morito "Si-wire grating couplers for integrated optical transceivers based on single-mode fiber connection", Proc. SPIE 9367, Silicon Photonics X, 936710 (27 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2078699

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