Technique Auto-Aligns Fiber to a Waveguide
Dec 1, 2005 — The high cost of actively aligning components in photonic devices is one of the major barriers to a generation of inexpensive, mass-produced photonic equipment. Indeed, Intel Corp.’s Photonics Technology Lab of Santa Clara, Calif., has identified the development of passive alignment techniques as one of the six major building blocks of its silicon photonics program (see “The Quest to Siliconize Photonics,” Photonics Spectra, November, page 53).
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