READ ME File For 'Highly Efficient Dual-Level Grating Couplers for Silicon Nitride Photonics'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2229

Date that the file was created: 09, 2022

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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ReadMe Author: Valerio Vitali, University of Southampton [ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0965-7503]

Date of data collection: July 2021 - July 2022

Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton

Related projects:
Silicon-rich silicon nitride Nonlinear Integrated Photonic ciRcuits & Systems (juNIPeRS)

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC BY


This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: Valerio Vitali, Cosimo Lacava, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Frederic Y. Gardes & Periklis Petropoulos 
TITLE: Highly efficient dual-level grating couplers for silicon nitride photonics
JOURNAL: Scientific Reports
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19352-9


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains:

data_figures.xlsx: this file is an excel file with different tabs. In each tab it is possible to find the data that have been used to generate each plot of the article, with the corresponding "X axis" data, "Y axis" data and, if present, "Z axis" data for contour plots. Each tab is named accordingly to the respective figure in the article.



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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
Data were generated using the "Lumerical software" (both MODE Solutions and FDTD Solutions) from Ansys. Data were then analyzed and plotted using Matlab software. Only numerical simulations are present in this article.

Methods for processing the data:
Matlab

Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers:
Matlab (any version)



People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Valerio Vitali, Cosimo Lacava, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Frederic Y. Gardes & Periklis Petropoulos