Opto-coupling device structure and method therefor

摘要

A manufacturing technique for making grating features utilizes the etching characteristics for photoresist to provide desirable geometric shapes in close proximity to each other. This results in a grating for optocoupling, which is manufacturable and provides efficient coupling. A silicon waveguide is conveniently achieved using a SOI substrate so that the insulator underlying the silicon provides one material adjoining the silicon with a lower index of refraction than silicon. The top surface of the silicon has the desirable geometric shapes that result also in a lower index of refraction than silicon above the main body of the silicon substrate.