[WP4-E] Poster Session 2

[WP4-E4] Low-loss Polymer Waveguide-based frontend for beam transforming in InP/Polymer platform

Theoni Alexoudi¹, 〇Dimitra Ketzaki¹, Dimitris Chatzitheocharis¹, Dimitris Alexandropoulos², Rui Santos³, Markus Halter⁴, Tobias Lambrecht⁴, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos¹ (¹Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece, ²Univ. of Patras, Greece, ³SMART Photonics, The Netherlands, ⁴vario-optics AG, Switzerland)

Keywords:Optical Passive Devices and Modules, Photonic Integration, Photonic integrated circuits

We present a polymer-based WFE on a low-loss (0.55dB/cm at 1550nm) platform featuring >19dB improvement in radiated power from the InP-based counterpart. This value exceeds the InP/Polymer transition losses advancing the practicality of hybrid schemes.