In-situ fabricated 3D micro-lenses for photonic integrated circuits

Thomas, R., Li, Jin, Ladak, Sam, Barrow, David and Smowton, Peter 2018. In-situ fabricated 3D micro-lenses for photonic integrated circuits. Optics Express 26 (10) , pp. 13436-13442. 10.1364/OE.26.013436

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Abstract

Aspheric astigmatic polymer micro-lenses were fabricated directly onto photonic integrated circuits using two-photon lithography. We observed a 12.6 dB improvement in the free space coupling efficiency between integrated ridge laser pairs with micro-lenses to those without.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy Engineering
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	Optical Society of America
ISSN:	1094-4087
Funders:	EPSRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 April 2018
Date of Acceptance:	3 April 2018
Last Modified:	14 Aug 2019 07:45
URI:	http://orca-mwe.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/110515

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