High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400 nm and 500 nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector

We design and experimentally demonstrate highly efficient Silicon Nitride based grating couplers with bottom distributed Bragg reflectors. All the layers were deposited using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition processing. We present gratings on two Silicon Nitride thickness (400 nm...

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Main Authors: Siddharth Nambiar, Abhai Kumar, Rakshitha Kallega, Praveen Ranganath, Shankar Kumar Selvaraja
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Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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description We design and experimentally demonstrate highly efficient Silicon Nitride based grating couplers with bottom distributed Bragg reflectors. All the layers were deposited using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition processing. We present gratings on two Silicon Nitride thickness (400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm) platforms. On a 500&#x00A0;nm thick Silicon Nitride, we show a peak coupling efficiency of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>2.29&#x00A0;dB/coupler at a wavelength of 1573&#x00A0;nm with a 1&#x00A0;dB bandwidth of 49&#x00A0;nm. On a 400&#x00A0;nm thick platform, we demonstrate a coupling efficiency of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>2.58&#x00A0;dB/coupler at 1576&#x00A0;nm with a 1&#x00A0;dB bandwidth of 52&#x00A0;nm. The demonstrated coupling efficiency is the best reported as yet, for both 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm thick, plasma deposited Silicon Nitride platforms.
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spelling doaj-art-cc2116ee8a30491b94e47c91bc01d8832025-08-20T03:15:48ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-0111511310.1109/JPHOT.2019.29364308808907High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom ReflectorSiddharth Nambiar0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5676-1341Abhai Kumar1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7667-6152Rakshitha Kallega2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5439-5042Praveen Ranganath3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6959-5538Shankar Kumar Selvaraja4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2670-7058Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, IndiaCentre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, IndiaCentre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, IndiaCentre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, IndiaCentre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, IndiaWe design and experimentally demonstrate highly efficient Silicon Nitride based grating couplers with bottom distributed Bragg reflectors. All the layers were deposited using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition processing. We present gratings on two Silicon Nitride thickness (400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm) platforms. On a 500&#x00A0;nm thick Silicon Nitride, we show a peak coupling efficiency of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>2.29&#x00A0;dB/coupler at a wavelength of 1573&#x00A0;nm with a 1&#x00A0;dB bandwidth of 49&#x00A0;nm. On a 400&#x00A0;nm thick platform, we demonstrate a coupling efficiency of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-$</tex-math></inline-formula>2.58&#x00A0;dB/coupler at 1576&#x00A0;nm with a 1&#x00A0;dB bandwidth of 52&#x00A0;nm. The demonstrated coupling efficiency is the best reported as yet, for both 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm thick, plasma deposited Silicon Nitride platforms.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8808907/Grating couplerssilicon nitridewaveguides
spellingShingle Siddharth Nambiar
Abhai Kumar
Rakshitha Kallega
Praveen Ranganath
Shankar Kumar Selvaraja
High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector
IEEE Photonics Journal
Grating couplers
silicon nitride
waveguides
title High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector
title_full High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector
title_fullStr High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector
title_full_unstemmed High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector
title_short High-Efficiency Grating Coupler in 400&#x00A0;nm and 500&#x00A0;nm PECVD Silicon Nitride With Bottom Reflector
title_sort high efficiency grating coupler in 400 x00a0 nm and 500 x00a0 nm pecvd silicon nitride with bottom reflector
topic Grating couplers
silicon nitride
waveguides
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8808907/
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