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High coupling efficiency etched facet tapers in silicon

We demonstrate etched facet silicon inverse tapers with coupling loss as low as 0.7dB per facet. This taper can be fabricated on a wafer scale enabling mass-production of silicon photonic devices with broadband, high-efficiency couplers.

P. A. Morton | M. Lipson | M. Lipson | P. Morton | J. Cardenas | C. Poitras | L. Luo | K. Luke | J. Cardenas | C. B. Poitras | Lian Wee Luo | K. Luke

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