Yang Shuyu, Zhang Yi, Baehr-Jones Tom, Hochberg Michael
Opt Express. 2014 Dec 15;22(25):30607-12. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.030607.
We propose a fiber to submicron silicon waveguide vertical coupler utilizing germanium-on-silicon gratings. The germanium is epitaxially grown on silicon in the same step for building photodetectors. Coupling efficiency based on FDTD simulation is 76% at 1.55 µm and the optical 1dB bandwidth is 40 nm.