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Dual-polarization multiplexing amorphous Si:H grating couplers for silicon photonic transmitters in the photonic
Galina Georgieva1, Christian Mai2, Pascal M Seiler3,2
1Hochfrequenztechnik-Photonik/Siliziumphotonik, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany. galina.georgieva@tu-berlin.de.
Abstract:
In this paper, we report on polarization combining two-dimensional grating couplers (2D GCs) on amorphous Si:H, fabricated in the backend of line of a photonic BiCMOS platform. The 2D GCs can be used as an interface of a hybrid silicon photonic coherent transmitter, which can be implemented on bulk Si wafers. The fabricated 2D GCs operate in the telecom C-band and show an experimental coupling efficiency of - 5 dB with a wafer variation of ± 1.2 dB. Possibilities for efficiency enhancement and improved performance stability in future design generations are outlined and extension toward O-band devices is also investigated.
