Open AccessGrating Coupler for an On-Chip Lithium Niobate Ridge Waveguide
Author(s) -
Muhammad Shemyal Nisar,
Xiangjie Zhao,
An Pan,
Shui Yuan,
JinSong Xia
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2016.2630314
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
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.