An ultracompact GRIN‐lens‐based spot size converter using subwavelength grating metamaterials

JM Luque‐González, R Halir… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Graded‐index materials offer virtually complete control over light propagation in integrated
photonic chips but can be challenging to implement. Here, an anisotropic graded‐index …

Bricked subwavelength gratings: a tailorable on‐chip metamaterial topology

JM Luque‐González, A Ortega‐Moñux… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated metamaterials are redefining the capabilities of silicon photonic chips. In
providing lithographic control over dielectric permittivity, dispersion and anisotropy, they are …

[HTML][HTML] Metamaterial-engineered silicon beam splitter fabricated with deep UV immersion lithography

V Vakarin, D Melati, TTD Dinh, X Le Roux, WKK Kan… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials have garnered a great interest for their
singular capability to shape the material properties and the propagation of light, allowing the …

Perfectly vertical surface grating couplers using subwavelength engineering for increased feature sizes

MK Dezfouli, Y Grinberg, D Melati, P Cheben… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present perfectly vertical grating couplers for the 220 nm silicon-on-insulator platform
incorporating subwavelength metamaterials to increase the minimum feature sizes and …

Subwavelength-grating metamaterial structures for silicon photonic devices

R Halir, A Ortega-Moñux, D Benedikovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent
homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …

Adiabatic and ultracompact waveguide tapers based on digital metamaterials

Y Liu, W Sun, H Xie, N Zhang, K Xu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adiabatic waveguide taper is one of the fundamental building blocks in photonic integrated
circuits, but it is challenging to achieve high efficiency and compact size simultaneously …

Bragg filter bandwidth engineering in subwavelength grating metamaterial waveguides

P Cheben, J Čtyroký, JH Schmid, S Wang, J Lapointe… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Bragg gratings are fundamental building blocks for integrated photonic circuits. In the high-
index contrast silicon-on-insulator material platform, it is challenging to accurately control the …

Sub-decibel silicon grating couplers based on L-shaped waveguides and engineered subwavelength metamaterials

D Benedikovic, C Alonso-Ramos, S Guerber… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The availability of low-loss optical interfaces to couple light between standard optical fibers
and high-index-contrast silicon waveguides is essential for the development of chip …

[HTML][HTML] A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials

JM Luque-González, A Sánchez-Postigo… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Tilted subwavelength gratings: controlling anisotropy in metamaterial nanophotonic waveguides

JM Luque-González, A Herrero-Bermello… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Subwavelength grating (SWG) structures are an essential tool in silicon photonics, enabling
the synthesis of metamaterials with a controllable refractive index. Here we propose, for the …