半导体光电子材料与器件之Helios课件-ch3 coupling.pdf

Lecture: Coupling light to silicon photonic circuits Wim Bogaerts Version: November 2009 Credit where it’s due... This lecture material was only possible thanks to Several people in the photonics group: Dirk Taillaert, Gunther Roelkens, Pieter Dumon, Frederik Van Laere, Stijn Scheerlinck, Shankar Kumar Selvaraja, Diedrik Vermeulen, Marie Verbist, Karel Van Acoleyen, Kei Watanabe Lars Zimmermann, Karsten Voigt (TU Berlin) Tolga Tekin (IZM) Cary Gunn (Luxtera) Badhise Ben Bakir, Jean-Marc Fédéli (CEA-LETI) Silicon Photonics –PhD course prepared within FP7-224312 Helios project Integration of circuits discrete elements Photonics is going through the same transistor radio evolution as electronics 1954 smaller building blocks more functions on a chip photonic IC intel 4004 1971 pentium 4 2002 nanophotonic IC Silicon Photonics –PhD course prepared within FP7-224312 Helios project Increasing Index Contrast Low Contrast - Fiber Matched (silica or polymer based) Bend Radius ~ 5 mm m Size ~ several cm2 c 5 5