Multi-planar amorphous silicon photonics with compact interplanar couplers, cross talk mitigation, and low crossing loss

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October 11, 2017

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Jeff Chiles

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a photonic routing architecture that can efficiently utilize the space of multi-plane (3D) photonic integration. A wafer with three planes of amorphous silicon waveguides was fabricated and characterized, demonstrating <3x10⁴ dB loss per out-of-plane waveguide crossing, 0.050±0.02 dB per interplane coupler, and microring resonators on three planes with a quality factors up to 8.2 x 10⁴. We also explore a phase velocity mapping strategy to mitigate the cross talk between co-propagating waveguides on different planes. These results expand the utility of 3D photonic integration for applications such as optical interconnects, neuromorphic computing and optical phased arrays.

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APL Photonics

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3D integrated photonics, amorphous silicon, optical interconnects

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Chiles, J. (2017), Multi-planar amorphous silicon photonics with compact interplanar couplers, cross talk mitigation, and low crossing loss, APL Photonics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=924003 (Accessed October 25, 2025)