Spot-size converter for low-loss coupling between 0.3-μm-square Si wire waveguides and single-mode fibers

26 June 2003

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1, 289-290 vol.1
https://doi.org/10.1109/leos.2002.1134041

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate our newly developed spot-size converter, and characteristics of Si wire waveguides with the spot-size converters. We adopted an adiabatic inverse taper for the converter.

Keywords

WIRE
OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES
OPTICAL FIBERS
OPTICAL FIBER LOSSES
OPTICAL REFLECTION
SILICON
OPTICAL LOSSES
OPTICAL POLYMERS
OPTICAL SCATTERING
ELECTRONS

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