摘要
A silicon-on-insulator-based adiabatic waveguide taper with a high coupling efficiency and small footprint is presented.The taper was designed to reduce the incidence of mode conversion to higher-order and radiation modes inside the waveguide.In connecting a 0.5-μm-wide output waveguide and a 12-μm-wide input waveguide of a grating coupler,a compact 120-μm-long taper was demonstrated,achieving a transmission of 98.3%.Previously,this transmission level could only be achieved using a conventional linear taper with a length of more than 300μm.
基金
This work is supported by the National Basic Research program of China(Grant No.2012CB933502).
