{"title":"Vertical MMI coupler for 3D photonic integrated circuits","authors":"K. Kirita, F. Koyama","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343190","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We propose a vertical MMI coupler connecting stacked PLCs for making 3D photonic integrated circuits. The ARROW based vertical MMI with a reflector enables compact vertical interconnections. The calculated insertion loss and return loss are below 1dB and over 30 dB, respectively.","PeriodicalId":269220,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343190","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We propose a vertical MMI coupler connecting stacked PLCs for making 3D photonic integrated circuits. The ARROW based vertical MMI with a reflector enables compact vertical interconnections. The calculated insertion loss and return loss are below 1dB and over 30 dB, respectively.