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Adiabatic Optical-fiber Tapers for Efficient Light Coupling between Silicon Waveguides and Optical Fibers

실리콘 도파로와 광섬유 사이의 효율적인 광 결합을 위한 아디아바틱 광섬유 테이퍼

  • Son, Gyeongho (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,) ;
  • Choi, Jiwon (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,) ;
  • Jeong, Youngjae (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,) ;
  • Yu, Kyoungsik (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,)
  • 손경호 (한국과학기술원 전기및전자공학부) ;
  • 최지원 (한국과학기술원 전기및전자공학부) ;
  • 정영재 (한국과학기술원 전기및전자공학부) ;
  • 유경식 (한국과학기술원 전기및전자공학부)
  • Received : 2020.07.20
  • Accepted : 2020.08.06
  • Published : 2020.10.25
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Abstract

In this study we report a wet-etching-based fabrication method for adiabatic optical-fiber tapers (OFTs), and describe their adiabaticity and HE11 mode evolution at a wavelength of 1550 nm. The profile of the fabricated system satisfies the adiabaticity properties well, and the far-field pattern from the etched OFT shows that the fundamental HE11 mode is maintained without a higher-order mode coupling throughout the tapers. In addition, the measured far-field pattern agrees well with the simulated result. The proposed adiabatic OFTs can be applied to a number of photonic applications, especially fiber-chip packages. Based on the fabricated adiabatic OFT structures, the optical transmission to the inversely tapered silicon waveguide shows large spatial-dimensional tolerances for 1 dB excess loss of ~60 ㎛ (silicon waveguide angle of 1°) and insertion loss of less than 0.4 dB (silicon waveguide angle of 4°), from the numerical simulation. The proposed adiabatic coupler shows the ultrabroadband coupling efficiency over the O- and C-bands.

본 논문에서는 아디아바틱(adiabatic) 광섬유 테이퍼의 습식 식각 기반 제조 방법에 대해 보고하고 1550 nm 파장에서의 아디아바틱 성질 및 테이퍼드 광섬유에서 HE11 모드의 전개에 대해 설명하고자 한다. 제조한 결과물은 아디아바틱 성질을 잘 만족하며 far field 패턴 측정 결과로부터 테이퍼 전체에 걸쳐 고차 모드 커플링 없이 기본 HE11 모드가 유지되는 것을 보여준다. 측정한 far field 패턴의 경우에 시뮬레이션 결과와 잘 일치하는 것을 검증하였고, 테이퍼드 광섬유는 다수의 광자 응용에 적용할 수 있으며 특히 광섬유-칩 패기지에 적용할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통해서 제작한 아디아바틱 광섬유 테이퍼를 모델링한 후 역방향 테이퍼드 실리콘 도파관 사이의 광 전송률 시뮬레이션을 살펴보았을 때, 1 dB 초과 손실(실리콘 도파관 각도 1°)이 약 ~60 ㎛ 길이라는 여유있는 공간 치수 공차를 보이며, 0.4 dB 미만의 삽입 손실(실리콘 도파관 각도 4°)을 보인다. 또한, 본 연구자들이 제시하는 아디아바틱 커플러가 O 밴드 및 C 밴드 대역을 넘어, 초 광대역 결합 효율 가능성을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

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