Compact and highly efficient grating couplers between optical fiber and nanophotonic waveguides

Frederik Van Laere; Guenther Roelkens; Melanie Ayre; Jonathan Schrauwen; Dirk Taillaert; Dries Van Thourhout; Thomas E. Krauss; Roe Baets

doi:10.1109/JLT.2006.888164

Compact and highly efficient grating couplers between optical fiber and nanophotonic waveguides

Frederik Van Laere, Guenther Roelkens, Melanie Ayre, Jonathan Schrauwen, Dirk Taillaert, Dries Van Thourhout, Thomas E. Krauss, Roe Baets

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Abstract

We present high-efficiency grating couplers for coupling between a single-mode fiber and nanophotonic waveguides, fabricated both in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and InP membranes using BenzoCycloButene wafer bonding. The coupling efficiency is substantially increased by adding a gold bottom mirror to the structures. The measured coupling efficiency to fiber is 69% for SOI grating couplers and 56% for bonded InP membrane grating couplers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	151-156
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2006.888164
Publication status	Published - Jan 2007

Keywords

BenzoCycloButene (BCB) wafer bonding
gold mirror
grating couplers
integrated optics
MEMBRANE

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