Abstract
Metal grating couplers for Silicon-on-Insulator waveguides are proposed. A silver grating coupler with 33% coupling efficiency is designed. A gold grating coupler prototype is fabricated using Focused Ion Beams demonstrating over 10% coupling efficiency.
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