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[WP-E-17]Globally Optimized Ultra-Compact Silicon Edge Coupler with Subwavelength Grating for Sub-1 dB Coupling Loss

○Peng Meng Chan1, Yuyao Huang2, Wencan Liu2, Sigang Yang2, Hongwei Chen2 (1.Beijing Institute of Technology, 2.Tsinghua University)

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Tapered and grating waveguides for optical coupling

This work introduces an ultra-compact edge coupler, which optimized using a global optimization algorithm. The proposed EC achieves a low coupling loss of 0.76 dB at 1550 nm, with a total length of less than 51 μm.