Backscattering design for a focusing grating coupler with fully etched slots for transverse magnetic modes.

ABSTRACT: Grating couplers are a fundamental building block of integrated optics as they allow light to be coupled from free-space to on-chip components and vice versa. A challenging task in designing any grating coupler is represented by the need for reducing back reflections at the waveguide-grating interface, which introduce additional losses and undesirable interference fringes. Here, we present a design approach for focusing TM grating couplers that minimizes these unwanted reflections by introducing a modified slot that fulfills an anti-reflection condition. We show that this antireflection condition can be met only for the Bloch mode of the grating that concentrates in the dielectric. As a consequence the light is scattered from the grating coupler with a negative angle, referred to as "backs

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288090 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature