摘要:
An optical device includes an optical bench and two flip-chip bonded optical chips. The optical bench includes a large area slab waveguide structure having an input facet facing the first optical chip, an output facet facing the second optical chip, and one or more curved facet which reflects the slab mode light such that the input optical mode coupled through the input facet diverges in the slab waveguide plane as it propagates, reflects at the curved facets, and focuses to an output optical mode at the output facet with mode size larger than the input optical mode in the in-plane direction. During fabrication, after the first optical chip is flip-chip bonded, the location of the focused output optical mode on the output facet is determined, and then the second optical chip is flip-chip bonded based on the determined location of the output optical mode.
摘要:
An optical waveguide mode transformer device includes a first optical waveguide bend structure and a second optical waveguide bend structure formed by vertically stacked multiple layers of light transparent media. One of the core layers of the optical waveguide bends has a higher refractive index and the other has a lower refractive index. The waveguide centers of the two optical bend structures are de-centered. The bend structure having higher refractive index core layer terminates at a location of the mode transformer device between its two ends. With proper bend structure design, the optical power can be completely transferred from the high index waveguide to the low index waveguide with the help of such vertical stacked de-centered bend structure.