Abstract

Photonic antennas are critical in applications such as spectroscopy, photovoltaics, optical communications, holography, and sensors. Metal antennas are widely used because of their small size, but they are difficult to be compatible with a CMOS. All-dielectric antennas are easier to integrate with Si waveguides, but are generally larger in size. In this paper, we propose the design of a small-sized, high-efficiency semicircular dielectric grating antenna. The antenna’s key size is only ${2.37}\;{{\unicode{x00B5}{\rm m}}} \times {4.74}\;{{\unicode{x00B5}{\rm m}}}$, and the emission efficiency reaches over 64% in the wavelength range from 1.16 to 1.61 µm. The antenna provides a new, to the best of our knowledge, approach for three-dimensional optical interconnections between different decks of integrated photonic circuits.

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