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 …

Recent advances in resonant waveguide gratings

G Quaranta, G Basset, OJF Martin… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR)
gratings or waveguide‐mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these …

Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects

H Subbaraman, X Xu, A Hosseini, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics has experienced phenomenal transformations over the last decade. In this
paper, we present some of the notable advances in silicon-based passive and active optical …

Monolithically integrated multilayer silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide platforms for 3-D photonic circuits and devices

WD Sacher, JC Mikkelsen, Y Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review and provide additional details about our progress on multilayer
silicon nitride (SiN)-on-silicon (Si) integrated photonic platforms. In these platforms, one or …

Fully-automated optimization of grating couplers

L Su, R Trivedi, NV Sapra, AY Piggott, D Vercruysse… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a gradient-based algorithm to design general 1D grating couplers without any
human input from start to finish, including a choice of initial condition. We show that we can …

[HTML][HTML] A novel approach to interface high-Q Fabry–Pérot resonators with photonic circuits

H Cheng, N **, Z Dai, C **ang, J Guo, Y Zhou… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The unique benefits of Fabry–Pérot resonators as frequency-stable reference cavities and
as an efficient interface between atoms and photons make them an indispensable resource …

Ultra-broadband and ultra-compact polarization beam splitter based on a tapered subwavelength-grating waveguide and slot waveguide

S Mao, L Cheng, C Zhao, HY Fu - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we propose an ultra-broadband and ultra-compact polarization beam splitter
(PBS) on a standard silicon-on-isolator platform. Assisted by a tapered subwavelength …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Silicon nitride spot size converter with very low-loss over the C-band

G Brunetti, R Heuvink, E Schreuder… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) provide a solution to overcome the main limitations of
electronics, such as the operating frequency and heat generation, pushing the so-called …