Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP
Mode converter and method of fabricating thereof
An optical mode converter and method of fabricating the same from wafer including a double silicon-on-insulator layer structure. The method comprising: providing a first mask over a portion of a device layer of the DSOI layer structure; etching an unmasked portion of the device layer down to at least an upper buried oxide layer, to provide a cavity; etching a first isolation trench and a second isolation trench into a mode converter layer, the mode converter layer being: on an opposite side of the upper buried oxide layer to the device layer and between the upper buried oxide layer and a lower buried oxide layer, the lower buried oxide layer being above a substrate; wherein the first isolation trench and the second isolation trench define a tapered waveguide; filling the first isolation trench and the second isolation trench with an insulating material, so as to optically isolate the tapered waveguide from the remaining mode converter layer; and regrowing the etched region of the device layer.
Rockley Photonics Limited
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Henri John Damiana
Nykänen Drake Lerose