Abstract

Structures including a grating coupler and methods of fabricating such structures. The structure includes a waveguide core, a bend, and a grating coupler coupled to the waveguide core by the bend. The grating coupler includes grating structures that are positioned with a spaced relationship in a layer stack above the bend.

Metadata

publication

US Patent 11,002,916, 2021

year

2021

publication date

2021/5/11

authors

Y Bian, AP Jacob, M Rakowski, B Peng

link

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11002916B1/en

resource_link

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/11/72/f9/dca2653a7bf0bd/US11002916.pdf

inventors

Yusheng Bian, Ajey Poovannummoottil Jacob, Michal Rakowski, Bo Peng

patent_office

US

patent_number

11002916

application_number

16682502