Edge couplers in silicon photonic integrated circuits: A review

X Mu, S Wu, L Cheng, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Low loss, large bandwidth fiber-chip edge couplers based on silicon-on-insulator platform

A He, X Guo, K Wang, Y Zhang, Y Su - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Fiber-chip edge couplers are extensively used in integrated silicon photonic for the coupling
of light between optical fibers and planar silicon waveguide circuits. Here, we experimentally …

Coupling strategies for silicon photonics integrated chips

R Marchetti, C Lacava, L Carroll, K Gradkowski… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

Grating couplers on silicon photonics: Design principles, emerging trends and practical issues

L Cheng, S Mao, Z Li, Y Han, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

Silicon photonic circuits: on-CMOS integration, fiber optical coupling, and packaging

C Kopp, S Bernabe, BB Bakir, JM Fedeli… - IEEE Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is a new technology that should at least enable electronics and optics to
be integrated on the same optoelectronic circuit chip, leading to the production of low-cost …

Grating-assisted fiber to chip coupling for SOI photonic circuits

S Nambiar, P Sethi, SK Selvaraja - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

State-of-the-art and perspectives on silicon waveguide crossings: A review

S Wu, X Mu, L Cheng, S Mao, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, silicon photonics has witnessed a ramp-up of investment in both
research and industry. As a basic building block, silicon waveguide crossing is inevitable for …

A grating-coupler-enabled CMOS photonics platform

A Mekis, S Gloeckner, G Masini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a silicon photonics platform that allows monolithic integration with
electronic circuits in a CMOS-compatible process. In this platform, vertical couplers are …

Grating-based optical fiber interfaces for silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits

G Roelkens, D Vermeulen, S Selvaraja… - IEEE Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review our work on efficient interfaces between a silicon-on-insulator
photonic IC and a single-mode optical fiber based on grating structures. Several device …

Fiber-chip edge coupler with large mode size for silicon photonic wire waveguides

M Papes, P Cheben, D Benedikovic, JH Schmid… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Fiber-chip edge couplers are extensively used in integrated optics for coupling of light
between planar waveguide circuits and optical fibers. In this work, we report on a new fiber …