We design, fabricate, and demonstrate a silicon nitride (Si(3)N(4)) multilayer platform optimized for low-loss and compact multilayer photonic integrated circuits. The designed platform, with 200 nm thick waveguide core and 700 nm interlayer gap, is compatible for active thermal tuning and applicable to realizing compact photonic devices such as arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs). We achieve ult...

Novel multimode-interference (MMI)-based crossings integrated with miniaturized tapers are numerically presented for Silicon wire waveguides. These miniature tapers function as field expanders to reduce transition loss between the input/output waveguide and the MMI region and the crosstalk in the crossing section. As a consequence, the lengths of MMI sections reduce to less than twice of the be...

Optical Network on Chip (ONoC) architecture is emerging as a promising candidate in multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC) because of ultrahigh communication bandwidth, low latency and power consumption. The topology and layout of ONoC has a great impact on the network performance. Waveguide crossing in the topology would influence power consumption and crosstalk noise, which could influence th...

In this Letter, we report group index measurements of the supermodes of an array of two strongly coupled silicon-on-insulator waveguides. We observe coupling-induced dispersion that is greater than the material and waveguide dispersion of the individual waveguides. We demonstrate that the system transforms from supporting the two supermodes associated with two coupled waveguides to the single m...

diagram of symmetry requirements for waveguide crossing, showing waveguide mode profiles and resonant-cavity mode contours. By symmetry the solid-line modes cannot couple with the dashed-line modes and vice versa. tional to the lifetime of the resonance mode. The required parity of the cavity modes is easy to achieve using the results of Figure 5. The desired resonant cavity is created by intro...

In this work, we study the formulation of beam propagation in an elliptical reflector in nanophotonic integrated circuits (NPICs). We introduce a Gaussian beam mode analysis with Effective Refractive Index Approximation (EIA) applied to planar waveguides. The wavelength-scale waveguides in NPICs lead to large diffraction angle of the input beam and phase aberration in the reflected beam. Howeve...