1. Introduction among others the fact that “few applications that require both large-scale
integration and high volume, with attendant low cost, have been identified”[8]. Nowadays …

1. Introduction among others the fact that “few applications that require both large-scale
integration and high volume, with attendant low cost, have been identified”[8]. Nowadays …

Background: Silicon Photonics has been rapidly developing as a field. The primary reason
for this is its lower operating costs and faster switching rates for use in big data centres …

Fiber to chip coupling is a critical aspect of any integrated photonic circuit. In terms of ease of
fabrication as well as wafer-scale testability, surface grating couplers are by far the most …

To satisfy the ever increasing demand in bandwidth in modern communication systems,
optical transmission is replacing the increasingly insufficient electronic communication …

Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

Grating couplers are widely used optical interfaces in integrated photonics, especially on the
Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) platform. Their design has been optimized for coupling light …

We report on compact focusing polarization diversity grating couplers in silicon-on-insulator,
which can be used to overcome the polarization dependence of nanophotonic integrated …

Surface grating couplers are key components to couple light between planar waveguide
circuits in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform and optical fibers. Here, we demonstrate by …

Efficient optical interfaces are challenging due to the micrometer-scale wavelength of light.
We provide an overview and classification of the most successful and most promising optical …