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Simon Plantier

Christophe Kopp

Daivid Fowler

Marco Casale

An optical coupling device for producing an optical coupling between an optical fiber and photonic circuits. The device includes a substrate and at least two coupling stages integrated on the substrate, and: each coupling stage includes a grating coupler configured to implement an optical coupling centered on a respective central wavelength; the multiple grating couplers are superimposed on top of each other, along an axis orthogonal to the substrate plane; at least one of the grating couplers is insensitive to polarization. The device can form, for example, a wide band coupler, wherein each portion of the spectrum is coupled by a coupling stage. As an alternative, such a device can form an emitting and receiving coupler, where emission and reception spectra are each coupled by a respective coupling stage.

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Simon Plantier