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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 26, 期 4, 页码 4766-4779出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.004766
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-14-1-0505, N00014-16-1-2237]
Efficient coupling between integrated optical waveguides and optical fibers is essential to the success of silicon photonics. While many solutions exist, perfectly vertical grating couplers that scatter light out of a waveguide in the direction normal to the waveguide's top surface are an ideal candidate due to their potential to reduce packaging complexity. Designing such couplers with high efficiencies, however, has proven difficult. In this paper, we use inverse electromagnetic design techniques to optimize a high efficiency two-layer perfectly vertical silicon grating coupler. Our base design achieves a chip-to-fiber coupling efficiency of 99.2% (-0.035 dB) at 1550 nm. Using this base design as a starting point, we run subsequent constrained optimizations to realize vertical couplers with coupling efficiencies over 96% and back reflections of less than 40 dB which can be fabricated using 65 nm-resolution lithography. These results demonstrate a new path forward for designing fabrication-tolerant ultra high efficiency grating couplers. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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