Grating Coupler for an On-Chip Lithium Niobate Ridge Waveguide

Muhammad Shemyal Nisar; Xiangjie Zhao; An Pan; Shui Yuan; JinSong Xia

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2630314

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2017)

Grating Coupler for an On-Chip Lithium Niobate Ridge Waveguide

Muhammad Shemyal Nisar,
Xiangjie Zhao,
An Pan,
Shui Yuan,
JinSong Xia

Affiliations

Muhammad Shemyal Nisar: Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, School of Electronic Information, Communications Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Xiangjie Zhao: Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, School of Electronic Information, Communications Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
An Pan: Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, School of Electronic Information, Communications Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Shui Yuan: Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, School of Electronic Information, Communications Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
JinSong Xia: Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, School of Electronic Information, Communications Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2630314
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

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We report simulation and fabrication of a grating coupler for coupling of light between an on-chip lithium niobate ridge waveguide and an optical fiber. A grating coupler with an insertion loss of less than 10 dB for C-band frequencies (1530-1565 nm) was achieved.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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