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 …

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 …

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 …

Waveguide sub‐wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

R Halir, PJ Bock, P Cheben… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

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 …

Dielectric laser accelerators

RJ England, RJ Noble, K Bane, DH Dowell, CK Ng… - Reviews of Modern …, 2014 - APS
The use of infrared lasers to power optical-scale lithographically fabricated particle
accelerators is a developing area of research that has garnered increasing interest in recent …

Broadband polarization independent nanophotonic coupler for silicon waveguides with ultra-high efficiency

P Cheben, JH Schmid, S Wang, DX Xu, M Vachon… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Coupling of light to and from integrated optical circuits has been recognized as a major
practical challenge since the early years of photonics. The coupling is particularly difficult for …

High-efficiency broadband light coupling between optical fibers and photonic integrated circuits

G Son, S Han, J Park, K Kwon, K Yu - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
Efficient light energy transfer between optical waveguides has been a critical issue in
various areas of photonics and optoelectronics. Especially, the light coupling between …

Focusing sub-wavelength grating couplers with low back reflections for rapid prototyping of silicon photonic circuits

Y Wang, X Wang, J Flueckiger, H Yun, W Shi… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate fully-etched fiber-waveguide grating couplers with sub-wavelength gratings
showing high coupling efficiency as well as low back reflections for both transverse electric …