Conference Proceedings
Polarization insensitive vertical coupler for multi-layer silicon photonic integrated circuits
S Gao, Y Wang, K Wang, E Skafidas
2015 IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference Oi 2015 | IEEE | Published : 2015
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a polarization insensitive vertical coupler for 3D silicon photonic integrated circuits. Results show that the inter-layer coupling loss is 0.29 dB for the TE mode and 0.2 dB for the TM mode.