Silicon nitride grating waveguide based directional coupler

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Abstract

Silicon nitride is a promising wave-guiding material for integrated photonics applications with a wide transparency bandwidth from visible to mid-infrared, with a superior performance in fiber-coupling and propagation losses, more tolerant fabrication process to the structure parameters variation and compatible with the CMOS technology. Directional coupler (DC) is very popular for realizing beam splitter because of its structural simplicity and no excess loss intrinsically. Here, a conventional silicon nitride directional coupler, three-dimensional vertical coupler, and grating waveguide assisted coupler are designed and fabricated, and compared with each other. A grating waveguide based coupler with a period of 300 nm and coupling length of 26 um, can realize a wideband 3-dB splitter for the wavelength in the range from 1540 to 1620 nm, for a transverse electric (TE) polarized wave. With further optimization of the grating period and duty cycle, the device performance can be further improved with a wider bandwidth.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOptoelectronic Devices and Integration VI
EditorsChangyuan Yu, Baojun Li, Xuping Zhang
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510604575
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
EventOptoelectronic Devices and Integration VI - Beijing, China
Duration: 12 Oct 201614 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10019
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceOptoelectronic Devices and Integration VI
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period12/10/1614/10/16

Keywords

  • Grating Waveguide
  • Silicon nitride
  • directional coupler
  • wideband

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