2-D Grating Couplers for Vertical Fiber Coupling in Two Polarizations

• Main Authors: Tatsuhiko Watanabe, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Juerg Leuthold
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
• Series: IEEE Photonics Journal
• Subjects: Grating coupler; polarization diversity; silicon photonics.
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8755389/

We demonstrate highly efficient couplers in a two-dimensional grating configuration for a vertical fiber-coupling fabricated in the silicon-on-insulator platform. A combination of sub-wavelength reflectors and blazed gratings enables both high coupling efficiency and vertical grating coupling. We experimentally achieve coupling efficiencies of -2.6 dB at 1544 nm and -3.4 dB at 1536 nm for x- and y-polarized LP01 modes, respectively. The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulated -2.4 dB coupling efficiency for both polarizations at a wavelength of 1550 nm. Simulated and measured crosstalk between two polarizations were -19 dB and <;-16 dB, respectively.