ULTRACOMPACT, LOW-LOSS DIRECTIONAL-COUPLERS ON INP BASED ON SELF-IMAGING BY MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE

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PENNINGS, ECM
DERI, RJ
SCHERER, A
BHAT, R
HAYES, TR
ANDREADAKIS, NC
SMIT, MK
SOLDANO, LB
HAWKINS, RJ
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10.1063/1.106188
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We report extremely compact (494-mu-m-long 3 dB splitters, including input/output bends), polarization-insensitive, zero-gap directional couplers on InP with a highly multimode interference region that are based on the self-imaging effect. We measured cross-state extinctions better than 28 dB and on-chip insertion losses of 0.5 dB/coupler plus 1 dB/cm guide propagation loss at 1523 nm wavelength.
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