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Broadband and Ultra-Compact Adiabatic Coupler Based on Linearly Tapered Silicon Waveguides

Optics 2025-05-06 v3 Applied Physics

Abstract

2x2 couplers are crucial in many photonics applications but are often wavelength-sensitive. Alternative designs could be large, complex, or lossy. We present a broadband ultra-compact adiabatic coupler with minimal coupling variation and the least silicon taper length of 1.44 um, to our best knowledge.

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@article{arxiv.2504.20512,
  title  = {Broadband and Ultra-Compact Adiabatic Coupler Based on Linearly Tapered Silicon Waveguides},
  author = {Ahmed Bayoumi and Ahmed Khalil and Pol Van Dorpe and Maumita Chakrabarti and Dimitrios Velenis and Philippe Absil and Filippo Ferraro and Yoojin Ban and Joris Van Campenhout and Wim Bogaerts and Qingzhong Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20512},
  year   = {2025}
}