[WE1] Optical Modules and Fiber Coupling

[WE1-5] Compact MT Angled Fiber Array for Lateral Optical Coupling to Waveguide Grating Coupler of a Photonic Integrated Circuit

Le-Lin Lin¹, Hung-Ching Wu¹, 〇Ann-kuo Chu¹, S. J. Wun², S. C. Chen² (¹National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan, ²ITRI, Taiwan)

Keywords:×4 angled fiber array, ×4 MT ferrule, Si optical bench, grating coupler, photonic integrated circuit

Lateral optical coupling using angled-fiber array and MT ferrule for quick plug-and-unplug interconnect to a PIC is proposed. The excess coupling loss of the technique to conventional vertical fiber coupling is 2.4dB/end with 0.4dB uniformity.