An out-of-plane grating coupler for efficient butt-coupling between compact planar waveguides and single-mode fibers

By D. Taillaert, Wim Bogaerts, Peter Bienstman, Thomas F. Krauss, P. Daele, Ingrid Moerman, R. Baets. 2002

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Fabrication-Tolerant Waveguide Chirped Grating Coupler for Coupling to a Perfectly Vertical Optical Fiber (2008, background): “An attractive approach for efficient coupling is to taper the waveguide width of the nanophotonic wire waveguide until it has the same size as the mode from the optical fiber and to use an etched diffraction grating along the widened waveguide to diffract light between the fiber and the waveguide (t”
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Silicon photonic devices and integrated circuits (2014, neutral): “Compact grating structures which can efficiently couple the light between silicon waveguide guiding modes to out-of-plane fiber modes, are also enabled by the high index contrast [6–9].”
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Nanophotonic waveguides in silicon-on-insulator fabricated with CMOS technology (2005, methodology): “As an example, we briefly discuss ring resonators in photonic wires [21] and surface gratings for coupling to fibers [22], [23].”
Compact Wavelength-Selective Functions in Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wires (2006, methodology): “For incoupling and outcoupling, we use grating couplers that couple light directly from a broad ridge waveguide in and out of a standard single-mode fiber, which is positioned above the substrate at a 10 ◦ angle [ 4 ], [5].”
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Silicon-on-Insulator Spectral Filters Fabricated With CMOS Technology (2010, methodology): “We measure the transmission of the devices using diffractive grating couplers [25].”
Label-Free Biosensor Arrays Based on Silicon Ring Resonators and High-Speed Optical Scanning Instrumentation (2010, background): “The optical mode profile of a grating coupler is matched to that of a single-mode optical fiber with a coupling incidence angle of approximately 12◦ and a typical insertion loss of 6 dB [22].”