POINTek muestra familias de productos de matriz de fibra óptica para chips integrados de fotónica de silicio

POINTek, C ª., a global leader and provider of high performance athermal AWGs, announced launching of new Application- Specific Optical Fiber Array Products, Silicon Photonics (SiPh) Fiber Arrays, which is capable of supporting the back-end packaging for Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits (PIC). This new Silicon Photonics Fiber Arrays have the excellent characteristics of a fine fiber-end mirror-surface quality and an accurate fiber protrusion length uniformity to match with the prefabricated V-grooves on a Silicon PIC chip. The required fiber protrusion length is typically 5 mm with ? ±2 mm length uniformity in an array. Both Single Mode (SM) Fiber Arrays and Polarization Maintaining (P.M) Fiber Arrays are available with or without 12-channel MT ferrule termination.

“This new SiPh Fiber Array is designed to passively align the multiple optical fibers into the wafer-fabricated V-grooves on the Silicon PIC chip without the expensive and complicated active alignment equipment, and furthermore, the passive alignment of the Array can be accomplished without monitoring the optical power,” según el doctor. Donald Yu, CMO of POINTek, operating from Los Angeles, California. Yu explains that the optical fiber array is a key component to efficiently assemble the PIC devices for coupling the multiple fibers into the multiple I/O waveguides on a PIC chip. In the conventional optical active alignment assembly process, the expensive automatic precision alignment equipment should be utilized while monitoring the optical power in the packaging process, and it often takes the long processing time. “Sin embargo, for this new SiPh Fiber Array, the fibers can be precisely placed in the Silicon PIC’s V-grooves with the minimal operation costs. Por lo tanto, the passive alignment of Silicon PIC could result in the very affordable SiPh device price in the market,” Yu adds.

In order for a SiPh Fiber Array to be passively aligned into a Silicon PIC chip, every optical fiber needs to be of very good fiber-end surface polishing quality and designed to be protruded ~5 mm away from the Fiber Block with

POINTek’s specialty in high performance optical component offers a timely and appropriate packaging solution to the coming Silicon PICs and monolithic electro-optic devices in the access network telecom industry as well as high performance computing and gaming industry.