Two-dimensional apodized grating coupler for polarization-independent and surface-normal optical coupling

Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 8 April 2020

Published date: 1 August 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: Manuscript received January 24, 2020; revised March 30, 2020; accepted April 1, 2020. Date of publication April 8, 2020; date of current version July 23, 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2018YFA0209000, in part by the EPSRC through programme grant “Silicon Photonics for Future Systems” (EP/L00044X/1), in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 6171101108, Grant 61704009, Grant 61675191, and Grant 61177078, and in part by the Tianjin Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology under Grant 18JCQNJC01800. (Corresponding author: Zanyun Zhang.) Zanyun Zhang, Qian Cheng, Hongwei Liu, and Hongqiang Li are with the Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Detection Technology and Systems, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China (e-mail: zhangzanyun@tiangong.edu.cn; 1831095436@tiangong.edu.cn; liuhongwei@tiangong.edu; lihongqiang@tiangong.edu.cn). Funding Information: The anthors would like to thank the China Scholarship Council for the award to Zanyun Zhang for 1 year’s research at the University of Southampton. D. J. Thomson acknowledges funding from the Royal Society for his University Research Fellowship. Publisher Copyright: © 1983-2012 IEEE.

Keywords: Grating coupler, Silicon photonics

Local EPrints ID: 439594

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439594

DOI: doi:10.1109/JLT.2020.2986043

ISSN: 0733-8724

PURE UUID: e7c3872e-1520-49ba-b2d6-7fdefa9fd6df

ORCID for Xia Chen: orcid.org/0000-0002-0994-5401

Date deposited: 27 Apr 2020 16:47

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