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24 November 2023 Design of silicon couplers for efficient coupling of SOI silicon waveguides to single-mode fibers
Yankun Wang, Hailing Wang, Xuyan Zhou, Jianxin Zhang, Fengxin Dong, Xueshuang Wang, Yanqing Jia, Kang Zhang, Hongwei Qu
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Proceedings Volume 12935, Fourteenth International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2023); 1293551 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3008178
Event: Fourteenth International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2023), 2023, Xi’an, China
Abstract
Couplers have always been crucial in integrated optics, particularly in silicon-based integrated optics, where silicon-based couplers are used to couple silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides and common single-mode optical fibers. However, direct coupling between single-mode fibers and silicon waveguides causes significant coupling losses due to the huge difference in mode spot size. In this research work, we propose a novel cantilever-based silicon-on-insulator edge coupler. A silicon waveguide with a cantilever structure is first created on an SOI wafer, and then silicon dioxide (SiO2) and silicon nitride (Si3N4) layers are alternatively placed on top of it and etched into ridge waveguide shapes. At the same time, the dimensions of the silicon waveguide in the longitudinal direction (light transmission direction) taper to form a tapered waveguide, and the refractive index of the Si3N4 tapers in the longitudinal direction as the longitudinal length of the Si3N4 shortens layer by layer from bottom to top. The coupling efficiency of a single-mode fiber with a mode field diameter of 10.4 μm and the SOI silicon waveguide exceeded 91%. The silicon coupler was simulated and constructed using the finitedifference method in time domain (FDTD) and the eigenmode expansion (EME) method. This highly effective SOI silicon coupler is crucial for silicon optical integration and may be used in a variety of situations, including optical computing, optical sensing, and optical communication.
(2023) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Yankun Wang, Hailing Wang, Xuyan Zhou, Jianxin Zhang, Fengxin Dong, Xueshuang Wang, Yanqing Jia, Kang Zhang, and Hongwei Qu "Design of silicon couplers for efficient coupling of SOI silicon waveguides to single-mode fibers", Proc. SPIE 12935, Fourteenth International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2023), 1293551 (24 November 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3008178
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KEYWORDS
Silicon

Waveguides

Single mode fibers

Optical fibers

Design and modelling

Silicon photonics

Silica

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