Silicon Photonics Foundry-oriented Y-junction Optimization

• Autores: De La Cruz-Coronado J.M., Prosopio-Galarza R., Rubio-Noriega R.E.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
• Repositorio: CONCYTEC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/2502
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/2502; https://doi.org/10.1109/INTERCON50315.2020.9220205
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Silicon photonics; inverse design; multi-project wafer; non-intuitive design; http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.01

Silicon photonics is the leading platform for pho-tonic integrated circuits (PICs) because of its low fabrication cost and a small area on-chip, which allows the forefront of the industry to develop low-energy consuming devices. For the implementation of PICs, among passive devices, the most used because of its functionality is the power splitter. Y-junctions are power splitters that are compact and can deliver relatively wide-band frequency responses. In order to respond to the current demands of silicon photonics foundries, this work proposes a method based on the Particle Swarm Optimization to design always-feasible and mass-production oriented Y-junctions. We have achieved transmittances above 49%, and a flat frequency response in the SCL optical communications band. © 2020 IEEE.