State-of-the-Art and Perspectives on Silicon Waveguide Crossings: A Review
Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Micromachines 2020, 11(3), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11030326
Received: 10 February 2020
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Revised: 15 March 2020
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Accepted: 19 March 2020
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Published: 20 March 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Advancements in Micro Nano Molding Technologies – Process Developments and Optimization, Materials, Applications, Key Enabling Technologies)
In the past few decades, silicon photonics has witnessed a ramp-up of investment in both research and industry. As a basic building block, silicon waveguide crossing is inevitable for dense silicon photonic integrated circuits and efficient crossing designs will greatly improve the performance of photonic devices with multiple crossings. In this paper, we focus on the state-of-the-art and perspectives on silicon waveguide crossings. It reviews several classical structures in silicon waveguide crossing design, such as shaped taper, multimode interference, subwavelength grating, holey subwavelength grating and vertical directional coupler by forward or inverse design method. In addition, we introduce some emerging research directions in crossing design including polarization-division-multiplexing and mode-division-multiplexing technologies.
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Keywords:
silicon photonics; integrated optics; waveguide crossing design; multimode interference (MMI); sub-wavelength grating (SWG); multiplexing technology
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Wu, S.; Mu, X.; Cheng, L.; Mao, S.; Fu, H.Y. State-of-the-Art and Perspectives on Silicon Waveguide Crossings: A Review. Micromachines 2020, 11, 326. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11030326
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Wu S, Mu X, Cheng L, Mao S, Fu HY. State-of-the-Art and Perspectives on Silicon Waveguide Crossings: A Review. Micromachines. 2020; 11(3):326. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11030326
Chicago/Turabian StyleWu, Sailong, Xin Mu, Lirong Cheng, Simei Mao, and H.Y. Fu. 2020. "State-of-the-Art and Perspectives on Silicon Waveguide Crossings: A Review" Micromachines 11, no. 3: 326. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11030326
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