An O-band Metamaterial Converter Interfacing Standard Optical Fibers to Silicon Nanophotonic Waveguides

Tymon Barwicz, Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Marwan Khater, Yan Thibodeau, Robert Leidy, J. Maling, Stephan Martel, Sebastian Engelmann, Jason S. Orcutt, Paul Fortier,

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2015 · 62 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

A metamaterial interface between standard optical fibers and silicon waveguides was fabricated in a CMOS production facility and shows −1.3dB peak efficiency with 0.8dB penalty over a 100 nm bandwidth and all polarizations.

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