A CMOS-compatible low back reflection grating coupler for on-chip laser sources integration

We demonstrate a low back reflection grating coupler on a SOI CMOS-compatible process designed for vertical integration of on-chip laser sources. It showed <;-26dB back reflection and 1.9dB coupling loss to a 4μm-diameter laser mode.

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