HYBRID INTEGRATION OF A LASER-DIODE WITH A PLANAR SILICA WAVE-GUIDE

Authors
JONES CA COOPER K NIELD MW RUSH JD WALLER RG COLLINS JV FIDDYMENT PJ
Citation
Ca. Jones et al., HYBRID INTEGRATION OF A LASER-DIODE WITH A PLANAR SILICA WAVE-GUIDE, Electronics Letters, 30(3), 1994, pp. 215-216
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
30
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
215 - 216
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1994)30:3<215:HIOALW>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A novel technique is reported for automatically aligning a laser diode chip to a singlemode planar silica waveguide on a silicon motherboard . The technique involves only a minor modification to a standard laser . A loss of -14dB was measured; the sources of this loss are analysed.