A metamaterial converter centered at 1490nm for interfacing standard fibers to nanophotonic waveguides

We present data with both manual probing and self-aligned 12-fiber automated assembly. We find a peak transmission efficiency of -1.6 dB and a Fabry-Perot oscillation on one polarization induced by a mask layout misstep.

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