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

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2015.th3f.3
• Publication Date: 2015-03-25T14:09:45Z
• Authors: Tymon Barwicz; Alexander Janta-P...; Marwan Khater; Yan Thibodeau; Robert Leidy; Jeffrey Maling; Stephan Martel; Sebastian Engelmann; Jason S. Orcutt; Paul Fortier; William M. J. Green
• Keywords: Nanophotonics; Interfacing

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