Abstract: When a photonic device is directly butt-coupled to a single mode fibre, often there is a power loss of 10 dB or greater, due to the highly unequal spot-sizes associated with each device. By ...

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Abstract: A novel high-tolerance coupling configuration of distributed feedback (DFB) lasers to silicon photonic chips based on the dual-lens is discussed in this paper. The coupling efficiency and ...

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