fabricated using UV-laser ablation. The calculated coupling efficiency with a sinusoidal
grating can be as large as 53% in a 0.5 µm thin film. The maximum grating depth we
fabricated was 130nm, limiting the coupling efficiency to a theoretical value of 18%. We
fabricated grating couplers on adhered ridge waveguides of 20 µm thickness. Coupling light
to waveguides on thin-film lithium niobate is still challenging, and here we present a fast …