Focusing polarization diversity gratings for Silicon-on-Insulator integrated circuits

We present experimental results for focusing grating couplers for coupling between optical fiber and nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator waveguides in polarization diversity configuration. The footprint is reduced by a factor of 8 compared to standard grating couplers.

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