Plug-and-play fiber to waveguide connector.
Opt Express
; 27(15): 20305-20310, 2019 Jul 22.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31510127
ABSTRACT
The mass production and commercialization of integrated photonics have been slowed down by the high cost of packaging its optical interfaces. We show a plug-and-play connector between a fiber and a nanophotonic waveguide consisting of a 3D polymer structure with a fiber entrance port that simultaneously achieves mechanical and optical passive alignment with tolerance beyond ±10 µm to the fiber input position. We take advantage of a mechanical and optical co-design, analogous to commercial fiber-to-fiber connectors. We fabricate the plug-and-play couplers using 3D nanoprinting directly on foundry fabricated diffraction grating couplers. We measure an average of only 0.05 dB excess coupling loss between a single mode fiber and a high confinement silicon waveguide in addition to the inherent grating coupler loss. Our coupling platform offers a passive plug-and-play solution for scalable integrated photonics fiber-chip packaging.
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En
Journal:
Opt Express
Journal subject:
OFTALMOLOGIA
Year:
2019
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Article