Abstract
Analytical expressions of electric field radiation pattern, coupling sensitivity, and scattering parameters of vertical grating couplers have been derived in this paper. Excellent agreement has been found between these expressions, finite element method (FEM) simulations, and experimental results. The results give an insight on how to design vertical grating couplers and reduce the number of iterations while designing and efficiently aligning the fiber over the chip without carrying out time-consuming electromagnetic simulations for the couplers.
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