Compact efficient broadband grating coupler for silicon-on-insulator waveguides.

By D. Taillaert, Peter Bienstman, R. Baets. Optics Letters, 2004

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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Second harmonic generation in phase matched aluminum nitride waveguides and micro-ring resonators (2012, methodology): “Focusing grating couplers [16] are used to launch light into and out of the fabricated chip.”
Aluminum nitride as a new material for chip-scale optomechanics and nonlinear optics (2012, methodology): “erformance of microring resonators through transmission measurements. In order to measure the transmission past the cavity, focusing grating couplers are used to couple light into and out of the chip [28]. Two sets of couplers are optimized for IR and visible operation by adjusting the period of the”
Compact and Highly Efficient Grating Couplers Between Optical Fiber and Nanophotonic Waveguides (2007, methodology): “The design method is described in detail in [10].”
DSENT - A Tool Connecting Emerging Photonics with Electronics for Opto-Electronic Networks-on-Chip Modeling (2012, background): “Vertical grating couplers [9] allow light to be directed both into and out-of the plane of the chip and provide the means to bring light from a fiber onto the chip or couple light from the chip into a fiber.”
Silicon photonic devices and integrated circuits (2014, background): “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].”
A Grating-Coupler-Enabled CMOS Photonics Platform (2011, background): “This solution has also been demonstrated on other silicon photonics platforms and can achieve coupling losses below 2 dB [18]–[28].”
Low-Loss Singlemode PECVD Silicon Nitride Photonic Wire Waveguides for 532–900 nm Wavelength Window Fabricated Within a CMOS Pilot Line (2013, methodology): “The grating couplers (GCs) were designed using CAMFR, an eigenmode expansion tool [11-12].”
Review of Silicon Photonics Technology and Platform Development (2021, background): “Works include high efficiency grating couplers [32], [33] and edge couplers [34], [35] have shown that reasonable coupling losses can be achieved.”
Apodized Waveguide Grating Couplers for Efficient Coupling to Optical Fibers (2010, background): “Higher coupling efficiency could be achieved [4], [9] by vary the coupling strength along the z-axis to obtain a Gaussian-shaped output field profile , as”