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Inverse-designed broadband low-loss grating coupler on thick lithium-niobate-on-insulator platform

Optics 2023-09-25 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

A grating coupler on 700-nm-thick Z-cut lithium-niobate-on-insulator platform with high coupling efficiency, large bandwidth, and high fabrication tolerance is designed and optimized by inverse design method. The optimized grating coupler is fabricated with a single set of e-beam lithography and etching process, and it is experimentally characterized to possess peak coupling efficiency of -3.8 dB at 1574.93 nm, 1-dB bandwidth of 71.7 nm, and 3-dB bandwidth of over 120 nm.

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@article{arxiv.2309.12976,
  title  = {Inverse-designed broadband low-loss grating coupler on thick lithium-niobate-on-insulator platform},
  author = {Yijun Xie and Mingming Nie and Shu-Wei Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12976},
  year   = {2023}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures