title: Reduced lateral leakage losses of TM-like modes in silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguides.
abstract: We numerically investigate the lateral leakage loss behavior for TM-like modes in silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguides. In order to improve the leakage loss properties, we propose a novel ridge waveguide structure where a dimple is introduced at the ridge center. It is shown that the ridge waveguide with a dimple is both low loss and fabrication tolerant. This behavior is predicted by not only an accurate finite-element-based analysis but also a simple, phenomenological effective-index-based analysis.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. koshiba@ist.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koshiba
authors.forename: Kuniaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kakihara
authors.forename: Kunimasa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saitoh